plea offer. and if he can establish that wasn t communicated, he may have a claim there too. and the other thing that makes this a bit unusual is that o.j. is alleging yale was involved well bv, involved in on the heist and potentially maybe even waiting in a car outside if you read the petition. so if that s the case, then this is a little different than your usual ineffective assistance claim. however, overall all of these claims he s got a very high hill to climb. and this is by any analysis something of a long-shot. well, i ll tell you one thing, if i ve learned a thing or two about courtrooms, it s that not everything happens on time. and even though get word that things are going to start at the top of the hour, you can rest assured they just very well may not as is the case in this las vegas courtroom. i just want to highlight what you saw on your screen, council going in possibly to speak with o.j. simpson, possibly for another unrelated matter. but at this point as we contin
california. i didn t know bruce lived in vegas. and he says, well, you want to do it in vegas? and i said, yeah, i ll call you back. okay. and prior to this time had you consu consulted from when mr. riccio first contacted you to right before you coming, had you consulted any legal con council. i talked to yale about it two or three times before it came up because we still weren t exactly who they were. but we were pretty sure it was beardsly and yale obviously had some contact with beardsly and thought he was different and beardsly s a little different. yeah, we talked about it. excuse me, your honor, at this juncture, if mr. simpson is going to be discussing conversations that he claims he
judge wants to hear? he made 22 originally. this judge agreed to hear 19. a lot of the 19 are really kind of legal and specific to the way that charges came down and instructions to the jury at the end. so the three that everyone s talking about regarding ineffective assistance of council, that he wasn t advised of a plea deal. galanter advised him it was okay to do what he was doing in advance of sting. right. to be clear o.j. claims in advance of the sting his lawyer said go for it, it s okay, just don t trespass and don t be physical. so i really don t know if there s merit to any of them. however, you know, maybe not being informed of a plea offer which was two to five years supposedly and he s done almost five years, he s almost maxed out, is a good one. i want to bring paul callan in on this. to the right on the screen is where o.j. will walk in any moment and ultimately he ll be
excuse me. discuss what your understanding was in august, september of 2007 regarding your judgment creditor s ability to seize that type of property to satisfy a judgment? well, i knew all of this was outside the scope of that. i knew that stuff had to have an unusual value. of course in my case as i was explaining to a guy over here the other day, everything has an unusual price and appearance, you know. but i knew that the judge says if i wasn t selling it for this unusual price, it was mine. if i stole it for over some unusual price, then they can, you know, garnish the money. okay. and your understanding that the property would be exempt from judgment, did that come from advice of any council? it came from my knowledge of
and there are hundreds of thousands of prisoners in this country who have nowhere near that kind of money, nowhere near that kind of representation who did not bring up ineffective assistance of council. does it matter that you spend a lot of money and get a lot of lawyers if you re trying to then claim my lawyers weren t good enough? well first, when it comes to the ineffective assistance, whether you re rich or poor, that s a claim made all the time. jose baez can tell us the same thing. ineffective assistance is a very commonly made claim. proving it however is another very difficult thing. proving it requiring different proof. take that claim and throw it out. the standards too high and the colloquy as an defendant you literally say i understand i m not testifying and i ve talked to my attorney and that really will prevent that claim from having any merit. the ones that may have some more are the communication of the offer, attorneys have an obligation to communicate any