Is O.J. Simpson's final chapter a prison term?

'Nobody leaves the room'
The events that brought Simpson to a prison sentence were recounted repeatedly in court.

Simpson traveled to Las Vegas for Scotto's wedding and a weekend of parties at the Palms hotel-casino. But before he could don his tuxedo as best man, Simpson had to take care of business.

He was intent on retrieving remnants of his storied past — pieces of memorabilia from his Hall of Fame football career that he heard were being peddled by dealers across town.

He talked about the plan all day on Sept. 13, 2007, as he met people at the Palms' bar and pool. Some offered to go along. Two of them said later that they brought guns, although Simpson insisted he never saw a gun and never asked anyone to bring one.

The morning after the incident, Simpson told The Associated Press he saw no guns, and he didn't think he had broken any laws.

"It's stolen stuff that's mine. Nobody was roughed up," he said, insisting he had a right to retrieve his plaques and pictures, including a photograph of him with the late FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.

The meeting at the Palace Station hotel-casino was arranged by Thomas Riccio, a memorabilia dealer who secretly recorded the confrontation.

Riccio's recording, which netted him $210,000 when he sold it to media outlets, became the key piece of evidence in Simpson's trial. Jurors said they focused on Simpson's booming voice shouting, "Nobody leaves the room."

Riccio was granted immunity from prosecution to testify against Simpson and Stewart. Four other men who went along for the confrontation were initially charged but then given plea deals to testify for the prosecution.

'I don't have any ill feelings'
The judge, who will sentence them Tuesday in a separate proceeding, is not required to abide by prosecutors' recommendations.

In the end, jurors said they didn't trust the witnesses and instead relied upon Riccio's recording and surveillance videos to make their decision. Jurors have no say in sentencing, and one of them said she didn't care if Simpson and Stewart went to prison.

"I don't have any ill feelings, and if they walked out tomorrow, so be it," juror Dora Pettit said after convicting Simpson. "I think he's an ordinary man that made a bad decision."

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