He should watch his step. I know some people who might be interested in dropping by and having a little chat with him.
The judgement that has been accruing interest for 30 years and is worth roughly $100 million.
How has that not been paid?
Loopholes, loopholes, and more loopholes.
For what it’s worth, my hypothesis is that he hired a hitman, then drew attention to himself with that ridiculous police chase because he’s dumb. (Same reason for putting out a book titled “If I Did It”. 
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Speaking of books, my favorite trial-related flotsam has always been OJ’s Legal Pad. I never heard of Henry Beard or American Humorist before this, but it’s a dead-on parody.
As for the estate, all I’m hoping for is a reasonable compromise. While the Goldman family is entitled to a sizable chunk of the estate, no way are they anything close to the original award, much less $100 million. So given that they’re losing out no matter what, why not spare something for Simpson’s four children? They’re blameless in all this. They should get something.
He probably spent the bulk of his fortune on the three big trials (the criminal trial, the civil trial, the second criminal trial), declared bankruptcy and moved to Florida which has pretty generous homestead laws that protected him from creditors, so he couldn’t be forced to sell his home or possessions for example.
The Goldmans were awarded the rights to his “If I Did It” book by a bankruptcy court, but apparently they didn’t get much of the proceeds because there were other creditors involved. It’s currently at 57th overall for best sellers on Amazon, top seller in criminology, so maybe that means a bit more for the Goldmans now.
OJ had a bunch of pensions (NFL, SAG, at least 1 private) that weren’t subject to seizure to satisfy the judgement.
The Goldmans also tried seizing the money he made from autograph signings, celebrity appearances, etc but those were apparently always all-cash deals, so they never recovered a dime.
OJ dying might be the best chance they have of recovering anything.
Why not? A court ruled that they are entitled to it.
My understanding of OJ’s situation is that:
- They could not touch his NFL pension, which was obviously pretty big.
- He began a big “cash only” type living-style where he would sign things and so forth for cash only and somehow kept the cash unreported so he could keep it.
Here is a recent, possibly not reliable(?), account of the cash only method. This is recent, but I’d heard about it before.
From the linked article, the executer is quoted as saying:
Assuming the executor isn’t lying, how can this possibly be the case? Is a court order necessary to collect a civil judgment? I thought that a civil judgment did come from the court system. Wouldn’t the judgment itself constitute a court order to pay it?
ETA: reading the linked article from AP, the first paragraph states that:
This is the same lawyer, by the way. So it appears that LaVergne is lying and/or is full of shit about there not being a court order. Just like his deceased client.
But my question still stands: is a separate court order actually necessary to collect on a civil judgment?
Typically, a court judgment creates a judgment debt, but then like other debts, it needs to be collected by the judgment creditor.
How that works will depend on the law of jurisdiction where the court judgment was given, and will vary with the type of asset which the judgment creditor is trying to seize. If it’s salary, then a garnishment order; if it’s chattels, writs of possession; if it’s real estate, liens against title, and so on. (And note that I’m just using the terms I’m familiar with; the terms will vary with the jurisdiction as well.) Some of those types of collection will require some sort of process from the court.
We’ve talked a fair bit about this in the thread on the NY state judgment against Trump. For instance, the NY AG office filed the Manhattan court judgment in the county where Trump has that big Seven Springs estate, outside of New York city, which is the first step in enforcing the judgment against that property.
Debt collection is a whole separate branch of the law, and court orders are a debt to be collected.
As always, IANAUSL.
Nah. He was there, he did it, the police chase was his only real confrontation of his guilt. He had his buddy Al Cowlings with him, who persuaded him not to kill himself.
Fuck that noise. His children may be blameless in the murder, but OJ is guilty of defying the legal judgement against him for liability, and the Goldman family is owed that money more than Simpson children deserve it.
If I were his children, I would want that judgement paid so the Goldmans received whatever closure is attainable, and they can sever themselves from the case for good. As long as they fight the judgement, they are contributing to OJ’s wrongdoing.
As for the original award, damn straight they deserve it. OJ deserved to spend the rest of his life in prison, but being destitute and having to live off his children would have been a good second.
OJ’s children deserved to have Nicole alive. They don’t deserve a penny of OJ’s wealth. Certainly not more than the Goldman family deserves what they were awarded.
Adult children don’t deserve an inheritance. I feel that way for everyone, but especially when the inheritance is essentially stolen money.
Wasn’t OJs blood on the scene? I mean…that is pretty damming.
Of course it was, but that was in the early days of DNA matching. The defense pummeled against the science and made it seem questionable. If it had happened today, it would be a slam dunk. The prosecution in my view made two errors: The shoes and the gloves. Those expensive shoeprints in the blood- they should have gone through all the footage of OJ on the sidelines at NFL games and found pictures of him wearing those shoes. They popped up, but after the trial. Had they had them earlier, they could have gotten shoe experts to testify that those were indeed the model that made the bloody shoe prints. But the biggest mistake was the fucking gloves. I have never tried it, but it seems to me that trying to put leather gloves over latex gloves isn’t going to work well. The friction between the latex and leather will make it impossible to put on, which I believe was the case and emphasized by his hamming up the scene. The line “if it don’t fit, you must acquit” was the death nail in the prosecution.
Yes, I get how he was aquited. Just reiterating it is like 99% likely he was the killer. I leave 1% for absolute crazy possibilities that did not happen.
The defense offered a scenario where the police contaminated the evidence with a blood sample they took from OJ. The jury was (not completely without cause) predisposed to believing the LAPD capable of all sorts of shenanigans.
“We’re framing OJ!”
“But…i really like OJ…but you’re right, this is TOO good! Let’s do it!”
Dana Carvey
Iirc there was some bad movie that came out recently that had a serial killer kill Nicole and Ron and OJ was the first person to show up on scene which is how he left physical evidence at the scene. Which makes it all the more bizarre if there was a serial killer and OJ still thought it was a good idea to write a book entirely about how he killed Nicole hypothetically.
OJ never struck me as a man of superlative intelligence, just an overgrown high school jock with delusions of grandeur.
He was good at football. A little suspish about some other things.