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‘Does not add up,’ OJ Simpson on Henry Ruggs’ sentencing in Vegas crash

O.J. Simpson closes his eyes during his preliminary hearing in Los Angeles, July 8, 1994, as he listens to gruesome testimony about a fatal slash across his ex-wife’s neck so deep that it reached her spine. (AP Photo/Pool/Eric Draper)

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LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – The sentencing of former NFL player Henry Ruggs has some in the Las Vegas community discussing the outcome, including former football player OJ Simpson.

He voiced his opinions in a video on the platform X on Aug. 9 stating that the judge’s decision in the Ruggs case did not add up.

Ruggs, a former Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver, was sentenced on Wednesday morning for a fiery crash that claimed the life of Tina Tintor and her dog and ended his career with the NFL team.

He was sentenced to between 3 and 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to driving 156 mph under the influence and crashing into a car killing 23-year-old Tintor and her dog in November 2021.

Prosecutors said his blood alcohol level was 0.1 which is twice the legal limit.

Simpson posted on his X account that “The math just does not add up,” when it came to the sentencing on Wednesday.

“You’re driving a car at roughly 160 miles an hour on a public street and killing a girl and her dog and you get three to 10 years. You go to a hotel room that you are invited to retrieve your own personal stolen property, property I now have because it was ruled mine by the State of California and you get 9 to 33 years. Same courthouse, same city, same state, I don’t know, somehow it just does not add up to me,” Simpson expressed in the video.

Back in 2008, Simpson was convicted by a jury of an armed robbery in Las Vegas and sentenced to prison after a 2007 confrontation with two sports collectibles dealers in a room off-strip at a Las Vegas casino hotel.

He was sentenced to prison for 33 years with a chance of parole after 9 years. He ultimately served 9 years in Nevada until 2017.

Prior to that, he was acquitted in the 1995 double murder of his ex-wife and her friend.

He was found liable for the deaths in 1997 by a California civil court jury that ordered him to pay $33.5 million to victims’ families.

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