*Here’s an interesting development. It’s kind of bombshell, actually.
On Friday, a Nevada judge agreed to reopen the armed robbery and kidnapping case against actor and former football star O.J. Simpson to determine if he was so badly represented by his lawyers that he should be freed from prison and get another trial, reports the AP via the Washington Post.
Simpson wasn’t in a Las Vegas courtroom while Clark County District Court Judge Linda Marie Bell agreed to hear evidence and consider 18 of 22 questions cited in a May appeal by Simpson appeals lawyer Patricia Palm.
The judge dismissed four other grounds on which the 65-year-old Simpson seeks release from state prison, where he is serving nine to 33 years.
The development could put Simpson on the witness stand for the first time. He stood trial in 2008 after authorities said he led five men, including two with guns, in a September 2007 confrontation with two sports memorabilia dealers and a middleman in a cramped room at a Las Vegas casino-hotel.
The judge also granted a waiver of attorney-client privilege on questions in dispute between Simpson and his trial lawyer, Yale Galanter.
Read/learn more at Washington Post.
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