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The former American footballer OJ Simpson, famous for his victories in the sport, their participation in film and the trial for the murder of his ex-wife of which he was acquitted, you can get life imprisonment after being found guilty of assault in Las Vegas, kidnapping and armed robbery.

Simpson, of 61 years, could spend the rest of life in prison along with her partner of golf Clarence Stewart, of 54, also found guilty of 12 charges of armed robbery and two for sporting goods sellers of collector in Las Vegas in September 2007.

After three weeks of trial, in which 20 witnesses gave testimony, the jury - composed of nine women and three men - delivered their unanimous verdict.

The Judge Jackie Glass must now define the conviction that, despite initially having to go into a period of 30 days, will be postponed until Dec. 5 at the request of the defense.

Simpson, who was calm throughout the trial, was moved when the verdict was read.

The process was conducted 13 years after Simpson was acquitted in that trial against him in Los Angeles for the murder of ex-wife, Nicole Brown, and a friend of her, Ronald Goldman.

That was one of the most famous trials in U.S. history, it opens serious questions about the police system and latent racism in the country.

Furthermore, put into question the impartiality of juries, and made the company aware of the differences that persisted between blacks and whites (the defendant was black and the two victims, white).

The racial factor has been crucial in the trial because the defense lawyer stressed the racist behavior of the principal investigator of the case, whom he accused of planting evidence against his client as a famous black.

The trial, displayed all the time in American television, turned into a media spectacle, which ridicule the jury system when it in black majority, acquitted the accused.

Polls of opinion at the time indicated that the Simpson case had become common cause for many blacks and had exacerbated the differences with the whites, who in their majority, found the verdict unfair and motivated by the solidarity of race.

After the announcement of the verdict, the then U.S. President, Bill Clinton, had to ask for respect for the judiciary and make an appeal for unity of the nation.

Later, Simpson was found guilty in a civil trial, and this, added to the launch, last year’s book “If I Did It” ( “If I had done” in free translation), which describes the way fictional as would have committed the murders, causing continued doubts about whether he is really a murderer or not.

This is a ghost that, according to the lawyer for Simpson, Yale Galante, influenced the sentence as a rematch of the trial of the 1990s, and has already announced that appeal the sentence.

There are differences: There were no blacks in the trial of Las Vegas, on the other hand, there were more women, and if Simpson has also opened a debate on domestic violence because the former player allegedly assaulted several times the ex-wife.

“The verdict was not a surprise. We knew what would happen,” said Galante, who said that members of the jury were predisposed to declare Simpson guilty.

The case was dismissed by which this time is the theft, along with several Minion, a seller of sporting goods that had objects signed by Simpson of the season when playing in the National League of American Football (NFL, in English).

The seller, Bruce Fremong, acknowledged that he had an appointment with an anonymous buyer, Simpson, who said that the items belonged to him.

In his testimony, Freemong said that Simpson began shouting: “This is all my m. ..! All this belongs to me. You stole it. Let’s get everything and get out of here.”

According to witnesses, one of Minion of Simpson pointed a gun at the face of Freemong and screamed: “I will throw in his c. ..”.

During the trial, Freemong said the player went to the hotel only to recover the belongings that had been stolen and that he did not know that his Minion were armed.

Four of those who accompanied Simpson - Charles Cashmore, Walter “Goldie” Alexander, Michael “Spencer” McClinton and Charles Ehrlich - was declared guilty of the charges and agreed to testify against former American football player.

In the U.S., armed robbery is punishable with between two and 30 years’ imprisonment, and kidnapping has convictions ranging from five years to life imprisonment.

The research that came out of the oven in the middle of the storm that fell on Wall Street indicated that the worsening economic crisis helped U.S. Senator Barack Obama to gain speed in the race for the White House, but analysts linked to the Democratic Party have expressed skepticism about the ability that the candidate must jump the obstacles ahead.

According to Gallup, Obama now has the support of 49% of American voters and the Republican Party’s candidate, Senator John McCain, is at 45%. There are signs that in recent days Obama opened a small lead over the rival, but the dispute between them continues apertadíssima, especially in the weight that should be more decisive in the game.

Many observers find astonishing that Obama has not fired in front of the opponent so far. The unpopularity of Republicans and the government of President George W. Bush, the distress of the electorate with the economy and weariness with the war in Iraq created an environment so favorable to the Democrats it is hard to understand why their candidate is not performing better in the polls.

Many voters were frightened with the inexperience of Obama, a characteristic that the opponents insist highlight. Some can not identify with him because he is black. But in recent weeks a growing chorus among Democrats rose to assign the difficulties of Obama the factors that have nothing to do with racism or cheat the Republicans, pointing to flaws in the conduct of their campaign and how he communicates with the electorate.

“[Obama] is in danger of missing an election that many thought was impossible to lose,” he said last week William Galston, who was a graduate adviser of former President Bill Clinton and now works at the Brookings Institution, an influential center of studies . “The reason is simple: the most important issue for the electorate, the economy, [it] does not have a clear message.”

In an open letter, the candidate who has moved on Tuesday, Galston made several criticisms of Obama. He said that his speeches are too long and have too much poetry, that his attacks against McCain and the lobbyists who work in the Republican campaign are nothing but a waste of time, and it would be much better focus its economic plan around the few proposals that try to offer solutions for everything.

A report distributed by two experts in research, Stan Greenberg and James Carville, the strategist behind the election of Clinton in 1992, expressed the same kind of grief. “McCain claimed the mantle of change and defined it in terms that are credible to some voters,” they wrote. “In the absence of a coherent message of change from Obama, many voters are accepting the definition of McCain.”

Overall, the polls show that voters have more confidence in the ability of Obama to lead the economy than McCain. But its advantage over the Republican candidate in that department declined significantly before the financial crisis from worsening, according to the latest survey of the Pew Research Center, completed days before the earthquake of last week.

The worsening of the situation Obama offers a valuable opportunity to reverse this trend, because it tends to increase dissatisfaction with the government and the Republicans. The political analysts generally believe that their initial reaction was better than McCain, but the last few days have also seen the difficulties that both are to deal with the issue.

Obama has sought to take advantage of the crisis the Republicans blaming the problems on Wall Street and linking McCain to the policies of the Bush administration. But his efforts to overcome the fears of the electorate, and it appears as a moderate leader and trusted lead him to express support for all measures adopted by the Bush administration so far to tackle the crisis.

McCain also endorsed the initiatives of the government. But during the week has taken an erratic behavior, first classified as “solid” the fundamentals of the U.S. economy and then printing a populist tone of his speeches. McCain blamed the “ambition” of Wall Street by the crisis and called for the resignation of the authorities responsible for monitoring the capital market.

The American voters can better examine the differences between the two candidates next Friday, when Obama and McCain face is the first of three debates that will be made in the final straight of the season. “Neither of the two candidates is very consistent on the issue of the economy,” he said last week Neil Newhouse, a partner at Public Opinion Strategies, a company that searches for the Republicans.

Phone manufacturer of HTC will be the first to use software android.
Operating System Google seeks to consolidate use in mobile web.

The first mobile phone with Google operating system will come to the U.S. market for $ 199, according to information disclosed this Wednesday (17) by the Wall Street Journal. ” The unit is the manufacturer HTC and must be submitted by the operator T-Mobile in New York, next Tuesday (23). The software Google takes the name of Android.

Companies involved in the launch were sought by the Reuters news agency, but did not want to comment on the information.

AT & T, the only U.S. carrier that sells the iPhone, Apple’s, fixed the price of the latest version of the unit to U.S. $ 199, which established a benchmark for smart phones with Internet access, that manage email and have multimedia tools. This is the case of appliances that use the android.

The newspaper, citing people close to the matter, reported that the T-Mobile plans to launch new plans for data together with the phone Google, which will take “aggressive price”.

The operating system from Google, which will be compatible with various types of equipment, a variety of manufacturers, represents a challenge for the iPhone, Apple’s, and also for other companies involved in trade in smart phones such as Palm, Research in Motion, Microsoft and Nokia.

Android

The android was submitted in November 2007 and is part of a partnership between Google and dozens of other companies called Open Handset Alliance. According to Google, he will help the industry of mobile phones to make Internet phones work in the same way it works in computers.

“Our hope is that thousands of different models of phones are triggered by the android,” said Eric Schmidt, chief executive of Google, at the time when the news was announced.

The operating system allows other independent applications are installed by users, after acquiring the device, as happens with the iPhone, Apple’s.