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An account of the failure to do a proper accounting of the OJ sentence

By Douglas A. Berman

This new blog post, fittingly titled "O.J. prison bids open at six, climb to 33," provides an effective account of the mess that the media is making in the reporting of OJ Simpson's sentencing today in Nevada. Here is how the great post starts and ends: Today's sentencing of O.J. Simpson in his Las Vegas robbery case produced utter confusion over his sentence and parole eligibility. With multiple counts, consecutive and concurrent terms, deadly-weapon enhancements, and parole factors, reporters were all over the place in trying to pin it down.... This is embarrassing. It's not clear yet whose fault it is, or who's right. I'm guessing that the judge did little to explain the sentencing realities in English, and reporters rushing to distill the details made a mash of them...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on December 05, 2008 (boomark / email).