Jan 11, 2008 11:28 pm US/Eastern
OJ Simpson Back In Jail After Getting Bond Revoked
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O. J. Simpson appears in court for preliminary hearing at the Clark County Regional Justice Center, Las Vegas, Nevada, in Nov.
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O.J. Simpson arrived in Las Vegas aboard an American Airlines flight Friday night and was booked in jail, all because he is suspected of violating the terms of his bail.
A Las Vegas court official said on Friday that Simpson was in custody, having left South Florida for Nevada, where he will be brought before a judge next week on allegations that he violated terms of his bail in a Las Vegas armed robbery case.
Clark County District Attorney David Roger alleges that in a November voice message, Simpson told his bail bondsman to contact co-defendant Clarence "C.J." Stewart and express frustration about testimony given at the hearing where Simpson, Stewart and a third man were ordered to stand trial.
Simpson had been instructed by Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Joe M. Bonaventure in September not to have any contact with anyone involved in the case -- not even by "carrier pigeon."
A hearing was scheduled Wednesday at the request of Clark County District Attorney David Roger, who filed the motion to revoke Simpson's bail, a clerk for District Court Judge Jackie Glass said.
In November, a Las Vegas judge ruled that O.J. Simpson and two other men must face trial on kidnapping, armed robbery and other charges stemming from a suspected sports memorabilia heist.
During the preliminary hearings, defense attorneys argued that the case was based on the accounts of con artists and crooks, and they asked for the charges to be dropped. But Bonaventure ruled all charges in the 12-count complaint would remain against Simpson and co-defendants Stewart and Charles "Charlie" Ehrlich.
Kidnapping convictions could result in a life sentence with possibility of parole. Armed robbery convictions would require some time in prison.
The case stems from a September 13th confrontation in a casino hotel room where Simpson and a group of men are accused of stealing items from two sports memorabilia dealers.
He has said he intended only to retrieve items that had been stolen from him by a former agent, including the suit he wore the day he was acquitted of murder in 1995 in the slayings of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.
Simpson and the other defendants did not testify in their own defense at the hearing.
Earlier, sports memorabilia dealer Alfred Beardsley, 45, testified that he tried to make clear to an "irritated" Simpson during the Sept. 13 confrontation that he had not stolen items from him.
When the men came in the room, "somebody yelled out, 'Police,"' Beardsley testified. "I was ordered to stand up. I was searched for weapons."
Beardsley testified that he did not steal any of the items and that he told Simpson the memorabilia came from a former partner of dealer Bruce Fromong. Simpson "felt violated and gave me a lecture," Beardsley said.
Beardsley said he was ordered to pack up the memorabilia, which had been laid out on a bed, and that the group left. He then called 911.
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