The judge who put O.J. Simpson in prison says the former football star would be free today if he had accepted a plea deal.
Judge Jackie Glass told KOLO TV in Reno, Nevada: “I think it would have been two to three years. His ego wouldn’t let him do it.”
A man named Charles Ehrlich, who calls himself Simpson’s best friend, said Simpson told him he wasn’t offered a plea agreement in his 2007 armed robbery case at the Palace Station casino in Las Vegas.
Ehrlich said Simpson, before he went to Lovelock Correctional Center, said he was constantly harassed for being acquitted in the slayings of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman.
“These ladies get up. They had two glasses of red wine. They fling it at him. He’s wearing white. He’s all red – doesn’t do anything, say anything. They’re yelling at him. He just dabs his face and looks down,” Ehrlich told the TV station.
The story continued: Ehrlich said that after a long night of partying, he asked Simpson if he was responsible for the murders. “He said, ‘I would never have done such a thing. I would never do that.’ And I looked him in the eyes and I believed him,” Ehrlich said.
“He did make attempts to hire someone to find out who did the killings,” he said of Simpson, now 68.