LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - O.J. Simpson's kidnapping and robbery trial began on Monday with a Las Vegas prosecutor asking jurors to render "the true verdict" against the onetime football star who was famously acquitted of murder more than a decade ago.
Simpson is charged along with Clarence Stewart of robbing a pair of sports memorabilia dealers at gunpoint, but Clark County Deputy District Attorney Christopher Owens told the jury during his opening statement that the case had its roots in the aftermath of the so-called "Trial of the Century."
And Owens appeared to invoke that sensational 1990s trial and its controversial verdict when he asked the jury to find Simpson, 61, and Stewart, 54, guilty of a dozen charges that could send them to prison for life.
Simpson's kidnapping and robbery trial began on Monday with a Las Vegas prosecutor asking jurors to render "the true verdict" against the onetime football star who was famously acquitted of murder more than a decade ago. Simpson is charged along with Clarence Stewart of robbing a pair of sports memorabilia dealers at gunpoint, but Clark County Deputy District Attorney Christopher Owens says
"Ladies and gentlemen you are the jurors in this case and the final story is going to be told by you.