Las Vegas community discussed the outcome of the sentencing of former NFL player Henry Ruggs and OJ Simpson has an opinion too.
On August 9, 2023, Simpson voiced his opinions in a video on X (Formerly Twitter) stating that the judge’s decision in the Ruggs case did not add up.
A former Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver, Ruggs, was sentenced on Wednesday for a fiery crash that took the life of 23-year-old Tina Tintor and her dog in November 2021 and ended his career with the NFL team. He is to serve between 3 and 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to driving 156 mph under the influence and crashing into a car, killing Tintor and her dog. Prosecutors said his blood alcohol level was twice the legal limit.
On Wednesday, Simpson posted on his X account that when it came to the sentencing, “The math just does not add up.”
“You’re driving a car at roughly 160 miles an hour on a public street and killing a girl and her dog, and you get three to 10 years. You go to a hotel room where you get invited to retrieve your own personal stolen property, property I now have because it was ruled mine by the State of California, and you get 9 to 33 years.
“Same courthouse, same city, same state, I don’t know, somehow it just does not add up to me,” Simpson expressed in the video.
The math just does not add up. pic.twitter.com/7sCKLEdzyq
— O.J. Simpson (@TheRealOJ32) August 9, 2023
Simpson was convicted in 2008 by a jury of an armed robbery in Las Vegas and sentenced to prison after a 2007 confrontation with two sports collectibles dealers in a room off-strip at a Las Vegas casino hotel. He was sentenced to 33 years with a chance of parole after nine years. He served in Nevada until 2017.
Previously, he was infamously acquitted in the 1995 double murder of his ex-wife and her friend. He was found liable for the deaths in 1997 by a California civil court jury that ordered him to pay $33.5 million to victims’ families.
