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Ron Goldman- give it up or?????


Let it go or keep at it? I think they should let their son rest in peace and let God deal with OJ. But I am not in their position, so maybe easier said than done!



LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- A judge on Tuesday gave Fred Goldman a week to come up with a list of sports memorabilia O.J. Simpson is accused of stealing from a Las Vegas hotel room.

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Fred Goldman, left, and his daughter Kim leave the courthouse in Santa Monica, California, in 1997.

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But the judge refused to order Simpson to hand over his earnings from everything from autograph signings to videogames.

If the Goldman family has its way, it may wind up owning the sports memorabilia O.J. Simpson is accused of committing armed robbery to recover for himself.

Since winning a multimillion-dollar settlement against Simpson in Ron Goldman's death, the family has waged a decade-long campaign to track down and claim Simpson's assets.

That effort hasn't stopped with the NFL star's arrest following a confrontation with memorabilia collectors in a Las Vegas hotel room. On Tuesday, the family planned to file a request in Superior Court to obtain ownership of the sports memorabilia seized.

Simpson was being held without bail Tuesday in Clark County, Nevada, Detention Center on six felony charges, including two counts of robbery with use of a deadly weapon.

Witnesses and authorities have said that they don't believe Simpson had a gun during the confrontation, but that some of the men with him did. If convicted, Simpson could receive up to 30 years in state prison on each robbery count.

The Heisman Trophy winner has been in and out of the spotlight since he was acquitted of murder in the 1994 deaths of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman.

David Cook, an attorney for Goldman's father, Fred Goldman, said he believed Nevada authorities would turn over the items with a court order after Simpson's criminal case finishes. The items include Simpson's Hall of Fame certificate, a gold Rolex watch and the suit Simpson wore on the day he was acquitted, Cook said.

"Assuming that this case is resolved one way or another, at the end of the case, the stuff will never go back to Mr. Simpson," Cook vowed. "He's going to walk out of Clark County empty-handed."

The Goldmans hope the property never finds its way back to Simpson.

In 1997, a civil jury in Santa Monica returned $33.5 million in judgments against Simpson in a wrongful-death lawsuit by the families of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.

The jury awarded $8.5 million in compensatory damages to Ron Goldman's estate and a total of $25 million in punitive damages, divided equally between both estates. Despite extensive court hearings, however, most of the judgment has remained unpaid.

In 1999, seized personal property was auctioned off, raising only $430,000, more than half of it from the sale of his Heisman Trophy. The house itself did not generate anything toward paying the judgment. A bank foreclosed on the home, put it up for auction and bought it back.

Tuesday's hearing was originally scheduled in connection with any money the Goldmans say Simpson earned from a video game featuring his likeness

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I think the Goldman family can not find it in their heart to let go of this, which is sad but understandable. Particularly when the killer (and we all know he is the killer) is so unremorseful and even seems to like to gloat about the fact he did it and got away with it.

In the end I think the Goldmans have merely decided they will devote their lives to making sure Simpson honors the judgement against him in the civil suit. For his part O.J. has publicly said they'll never see that money because he has no intention of honoring the judgement unless forced too.

I'm not sure what I'd do if a loved one were taken from me and I watched the killer go golfing day after day.

Maybe what they're doing is a better alternative than what I would probably do, which is kill the *$(#*%(#(*)@!

-- Edited by Jeremy Riggs at 13:51, 2007-09-18

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I think if someone rightfully owed me millions of dollars, I would be watching them too to try to find a way to get it.





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Yep, I agree JR and Web.  Since he (Simpson) wasn't convicted of the murders, the Goldmans' only other legal option was to go after him financially, and I'm sure their main reason for doing so was to make sure Simpson was held accountable in some way for the death of their son.  While I completely understand Ruby's sentiments, I know that I too would continue trying to collect the money if I were in this position.  I think if Simpson would have been convicted of murder, the Goldman family would have found the closure they needed.  Since that didn't happen, making sure he pays his debt to them and their son is probably the only way they will get any type of closure. 


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