I've heard (Sorry, no sources off hand) that he's looking at 15 years minimum.
I had heard it was 20 years minimum, but I've only been peeking at the news today. Either way, it's ok with me.
Yes, I know that guilty people are sometimes acquitted, that in the US system that's part of the "cost of doing business," and that this trial should have been about the armed robbery and only the armed robbery, nothing more. And I did watch enough of this trial that I think he
did get a fair shake; the jurors were questionnaired and
voir dired to death, evidence that could have been legitimately introduced was withheld because it was too reminiscent of 1994, but nonetheless the prosecution had him cold. (It didn't help him any that half his friends seem to spend 24/7 wired to record everything they do.)
So OK, he got a fair trial and was convicted. But I'm
not on the jury, so I
can say this -- if real justice had prevailed, OJ would be sitting in a California prison right now, having recently exhausted his appeals, and would be counting the weeks until he sucked the cyanide.
Danny