OJ Simpson Faces Four More Years In Prison, New Trial Denied

OJ Simpson faces at least four more years in prison after a judge rejected his bid for a new trial in his Las Vegas armed robbery and kidnapping conviction.
Simpson claimed his lawyers in the original trial were incompetent and botched his defence.

"All grounds in the petition lack merit and, consequently, are denied," Clark County District Judge Linda Marie Bell said in her ruling.

The former football star plans to appeal the ruling to the Nevada Supreme Court.

"We're confident that when we get to the right court we'll get relief because he deserves relief, because he didn't get a fair trial," Simpson's lawyer Patricia Palm said.

Simpson was found guilty of kidnapping, armed robbery and other charges in what he said was an attempt to retrieve memorabilia and personal items from two sports collectibles dealers in a casino hotel room.

He was sentenced to nine to 33 years in Nevada state prison.

A board granted parole on some convictions in July, but the 66-year-old must serve at least four more years locked up.

He is imprisoned at Lovelock Correctional Center.

Simpson was acquitted in 1995 in the stabbing deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman. The Los Angeles case was dubbed the "trial of the century".

Years later, a jury in Miami acquitted him of all charges in a Florida road rage case.