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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.