OJ jurors admit to murder trial ‘feelings’

Documents released by the Las Vegas court where OJ Simpson (pictured) was convicted on Saturday of armed robbery and kidnapping reveal that five of the 12 jurors disclosed during the jury selection process that they disagreed with the 1995 verdict when the former football player was acquitted in Los Angeles of murdering his wife, Nicole Brown. However, each of the jurors claimed that they could put aside their feelings of injustice in considering the latest case against him.

Simpson's lawyer, Yale Galanter, reacted: "I know some of the jurors are saying it didn't enter into their decision. That's beyond belief. It just defies common logic."

Galanter is set to launch an appeal against Simpson's conviction on the grounds that an all-white jury could not treat Simpson fairly. Significantly, it was a mostly black jury that found him not guilty of murdering Nicole Brown in the so-called 'trial of the century' 13 years ago.

Unless Galanter can get the conviction over-turned, Simpson - or The Juice, as he was once known by adoring fans - looks likely to spend the next 15 years at least in jail. He was found guilty of all 12 charges against him arising from an assault he and a gang of accomplices made on two sports memorabilia dealers in a Las Vegas hotel last year.

Galanter used his summing-up to argue that Simpson was a victim of a concerted effort to punish him for the murder of Nicole Brown and her friend Ron Goldman in 1994 and not for a minor affray in a hotel room in which no one was hurt. He referred to a tape of Nevada police officers boasting that they would succeed where their California colleagues had failed and would "get" Simpson.