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James B. Wilson

Vegas Buzz  Featured Columnist

No way he's gonna get away with it again.  Of all the states to perform his antics in, Simpson picked the worst.  Nevada.  With its relatively 'undeveloped' legal system that provides few loopholes and technicalities through which criminals can slip through, he's got a tough row to hoe this time.

And don't forget Nevada's legacy of 'frontier justice,' and varied other types of justice, that stack the odds against anyone caught up in the criminal justice system. 

He may be a celebrity, but in Nevada, especially Las Vegas, celebrities are a dime a dozen.  Nobody blinks an eye when they see one. So nobody's gaga-eyed when they see a celebrity. Much less a disgraced one like Orenthal "Juice" Simpson.

Sorry, no 'juice' for you here, thank God.

Unliked the original botched prior trial, the prosecution has been busily preparing its case for precisely a year now.  Everything's being buttoned up nicely, every escape route is being closed. 

To further stack the odds against him, there will be 12 jurors, and 6 alternates, chosen from a massive pool of 250 qualified jurors.

But even so, with 12 very serious counts against him, chances are high at least one of them will stick.  And any one of those charges can put the juice away - finally - for quite some time.

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