Of course, the other problem is that the dealers at best could be charged with possession of stolen goods. IIRC some of the stuff disappeared from OJ’s house during a break-in a few years after the trial. To charge someone with theft, you have to tie them to the actual act. Simple possesion might lead to possession of stolen goods charge, but you would have to prove they knew it was stolen. If the sellers claim the first they heard about it being stolen is when someone busted in waving guns, and grabbed it, then it’s unlikely possession of stolen goods charges would stick.
Oh, certainly that is true. I’d just hate to see them get a pass or off easy because OJ behaved badly and OJ “needed” to go up the river for something and they provided it to the authorities. Cause thieves really don’t care whose stuff they are stealing. I guess I could read up on this and find out for myself, but I figure somebody here might have already read up a lot on this and have a quick answer. If not, I aint going to miss any sleep over it.
Oh, and the stealing satellite tv is funny. Unfortunately for OJ, the judge’s brother owns a satellite tv company 
I suppose the added problem is that if OJ filed a complaint with the police to recover his property, it would become the Goldman’s property. I assume anyone in the OJ memorabilia business knew this; just because they could profess no knowledge of stolen goods officially does not mean they were clueless.
The stolen items are fairly well documented, thanks to the Goldmans efforts to retrieve them. Most of the items were taken from Simpson’s Brentwood house in 1997 by his former agent, Mike Gilbert. Others were taken from a storage locker owned by Simpson’s mother. Gilbert was later forced to return much of that stuff under court order. Here’s one article that talks about the subject, but there are plenty of others.
The thief was Gilbert, who stole the items in the late 1990s. He was never criminally charged, but was ordered to return all of the items he allegedly stole.
Simpson claimed that he complained to the FBI about the two men he later confronted (Al Beardsley and Bruce Fromong) having his items, and that they told him it was a civil matter. They weren’t charged for possession of stolen items, but Beardsley had an outstanding warrant at the time of the incident for which he was jailed. Fromong had a heart attack during the trial.
Thanks for that reply Anson.
So it does sound like thieves mostly got away with thieving :mad: And theft is a civil matter? Lazy cop bastards.
I think the issue with respect to the folks in Las Vegas was that they hadn’t stolen the stuff. Recovering the property was a civil matter. The statute of limitations had run out on the original theft.
The person who was accused of stealing the stuff claims that he didn’t steal it, but rather had taken it to hide it from being seized as part of the Goldmans civil suit. When the matter was taken before the court, the judge opted not to pursue criminal charges as long as the stuff was turned over.
Thanks for more info Anson. I guess anything OJ ish is just a big mess.