OJ going to jail for AT LEAST 15 years!

In similar news, the Brits are not to be outdone!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...mprisoning-male-escort.html?printingPage=true

Guilty: Boy George warned by judge he faces jail for falsely imprisoning male escort

By Richard Simpson
Last updated at 8:28 PM on 05th December 2008

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Boy George faces a jail term for falsely imprisoning a male escort.

He was told in court today that a prison sentence was 'the most likely option' after a jury convicted him of handcuffing Norwegian Audun Carlsen to a wall at his flat.

The singer, 46, whose real name is George O'Dowd, also beat Carlsen, 29, with a metal chain as he tried to escape from the flat in Shoreditch, East London after a kinky photographic session, Snaresbrook Crown Court heard.

Mr Carlsen fled in his underpants and alerted police.






A jury found Boy George, left, guilty of falsely imprisoning male escort Audun Carlsen, right
O'Dowd claimed he had handcuffed Carlsen to a wall while he investigated whether he had tampered with his home computer on April 28 of last year.

He accused Mr Carlsen of stealing photos of himself from the laptop, taken when the pair met three months earlier.

The defence claimed that the dispute was over whether Mr Carlsen had stolen photographs and, in so doing, 'messed up' O'Dowd's computer.
The suggestion that it was because Mr Carlsen refused to have sex with O'Dowd on the previous occasion was 'entire fantasy or a lie', the defence said.
O'Dowd denied to police that he punched or assaulted Mr Carlsen or swung a chain at him as the escort fled the flat, and suggested the bruises Mr Carlsen sustained could have been due to the fact that he was HIV positive.

Jurors saw photos of welts on Carlsen's head and injuries to his arm.

Boy George performing in Peru last year. He has been warned he faces a jail sentence
But Mr Carlsen told the court that O'Dowd concocted the story about computer tampering so he could punish him for not having sex during the first meeting.

He said: 'I think he couldn't handle the refusal - me not having sex with him.'
O'Dowd told police he was annoyed about that claim. 'I'd never have slept with someone who is HIV positive,' he told police.
The prosecution said the pair first made contact on the Gaydar website, a social networking site primarily for gay and bisexual men.
Prosecuting barrister Heather Norton said their first meeting seemed to be going well until the singer started to suspect Mr Carlsen of trying to hack into his computer.
However, they parted on good terms and the singer paid Mr Carlsen £300 of the £400 they had agreed.
In the weeks that followed O'Dowd and Carlsen exchanged emails in which the singer accused Carlsen of breaking into his computer system.
But in later emails the singer said he would be 'perfectly happy to see you naked asap'.

He also referred to Carlsen's 'heavenly b***'. Eventually they agreed to meet for a second time.
O'Dowd looked ashen-faced as the female foreman of the jury delivered the verdict.
He licked his lips nervously and spoke only to confirm that he understood the new condition of his bail, that he should live and sleep at an address which was handed on a piece of paper to the court.
Judge David Radford told O'Dowd: 'The fact that your bail is being continued does not imply that this will be dealt with by a non-custodial sentence. I don't want any false expectations created.'

The case was adjourned for sentence on January 16.
This is not the singer's first brush with the law. Two years ago, he was ordered to do community service in New York - sweeping the streets - after pleading guilty to falsely reporting a burglary at his lower Manhattan apartment.

The officers who responded found cocaine there.

 

And the local Vegas paper probably has it right:

http://www.lvrj.com/news/35601444.html

O.J. Simpson sentencing in Las Vegas

For more than 13 years, he has been widely regarded as the man who got away with murder.But this morning, O.J. Simpson was punished for other crimes: last year’s kidnapping and armed robbery of two sports memorabilia dealers at Palace Station.

After hearing a statement of remorse from Simpson, whose voice quavered as he spoke, District Judge Jackie Glass imposed a sentence that will keep the former football star behind bars between nine and 33 years.