The Juice Gets Pulped

A broken O.J. Simpson has been sentenced to at least 15 years in prison for his Las Vegas hotel armed robbery by a judge who rejected his apology and said, "It was much more than stupidity." Oh, sweet lady of Justice...I don't understand you but sometimes you make those karmic corrections and everything is okay.

Simpson stood stone-faced Friday when the judge quickly rattled off his punishment after he pleaded with her that he didn't mean to steal from anybody when he tried to retrieve memorabilia.

He appeared ready to break down in tears as he told that he was "sorry and confused" before going into a rambling and emotional 5-minute declaration.

"I didn't want to steal anything from anyone ... I'm sorry, sorry," he said.

It was also ruled before sentencing that Simpson cannot be freed on bail pending possible appeal.

The 61-year-old football Hall of Famer stood shackled and stone-faced when Judge Jackie Glass quickly rattled off his punishment soon after he made a rambling, five-minute plea for leniency, choking back tears as he told her: "I didn't want to steal anything from anyone. ... I'm sorry, sorry."

The judge said several times that her sentence in the Las Vegas case had nothing to do with Simpson's 1994 acquittal in the slaying of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. "I'm not here to try and cause any retribution or any payback for anything else," said Glass. Simpson's co-defendant and former golfing buddy, Clarence "C.J. Stewart, was also sentenced to at least 15 years. Maybe they can bunk together!

Outside court, Goldman's father, Fred Goldman, and sister, Kim, said they were thrilled with the sentence. "There's never closure. Ron is always gone. What we have is satisfaction that this monster is where he belongs behind bars," Fred Goldman said. Amen to that!