Posted on 09/06/2006 7:34:31 AM PDT by WmShirerAdmirer
Give me rights to OJ's name
Goldman continues to believe Simpson killed his son and said it would be 'poetic justice' to take away the fame Goldman believes helped the football star prevail in the criminal case Simpson ... accused of avoiding paying the $44 million lawsuit award.
Advertisement AdvertisementThe father of murder victim Ron Goldman has asked a court to give him the publicity rights to the name, image and likeness of O J Simpson, who has failed to pay a $44 million judgment in a 1997 wrongful death lawsuit.
"He personally has never paid a dime on the judgment to anyone," Fred Goldman said. "He has made it very clear over the years that he has no intention of doing so."
The petition, filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, asks that Simpson's "right of publicity" be transferred to help pay off the Goldman family's portion of the award, estimated at about $26 million, plus interest.
A hearing was scheduled for October 17.
Simpson, who lives in Florida, was acquitted after a criminal trial of the June 12, 1994, slayings of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ron Goldman, outside her Brentwood home. No one else has been arrested.
The Goldman and Brown families later sued Simpson. A civil court jury, using a lesser standard of proof than is required at a criminal trial, found him liable for the killings in 1997.
Goldman continues to believe Simpson killed his son and said it would be "poetic justice" to take away the fame Goldman believes helped the football star prevail in the criminal case.
Simpson has avoided paying the civil judgment because his National Football League pension and his Florida home cannot legally be seized. However, Goldman's petition contends Simpson has continued to earn money through appearances and autograph signings.
Goldman said he wants to take from Simpson "what we perceive is probably the most important thing to him, and that's his ego, and that's the opportunity to use his name and likeness to earn money."
Yale Galanter, Simpson's attorney, said he would review the petition but had not found any legal precedent that gives a court the authority to take publicity rights.
He also denied that Simpson had avoided paying the lawsuit award.
"It's not a question of intentionally trying to avoid anything," he said.
"OJ's life is very simply an open book. There is no money."
He estimated that Simpson makes only a few thousand dollars from autograph-signing sessions.
While publicity rights have been sold or transferred, the petition to forcibly take them to satisfy a lawsuit award is an untried legal maneuver, said Karl Manders, owner of Continental Enterprises, an Indianapolis-based company that designs and implements intellectual property protection programs.
Manders said he suggested the idea to Goldman.
AP
Except for the lawyers continuing to get paid, and for Goldman looking like it's all about the money, I am all in favor of tying up Simpson in litigation and suits for the remainder of his life.
true, cause those with full brains know that he didn't.
So if there is resonalble doubt that he committed the crime (i personally believe he did) It does not make sense that a civil case can find him guilty. I understand the burden of proof is less but it does not make sense to me... thats all I am saying. So did the civil court make the glove fit on his hand?
Yep - The DA blew it right at the starting gate by not insisting the trial be held 3 miles away in Santa Monica.
all righty then
Yeah, full of ignorance, full of race-baiting rhetoric, or full of a sort of fecal matter.
So, if I kill your family while driving DUI and run a stop sign, but have lawyers clever enough to get me out of the criminal rap, you're not going to make a claim against my insurance company?
no, the Kalifornia "Justice System" really screwed itself badly w/ its' "peculiar" rules....let them (the stupid citizens of KA) suffer.
Yeah, sure.
OK.
Uh huh, yep, you got it.
By the way, I got this brick made out of gold that I can let go for...say, just five hundred bucks?
I'll pay the shipping, too.
Well, if Goldman succeeds, he could go a knife marketing company which could hawk their wares with a big picture of O.J. behind the huckster. Or he could go to a binocular company and the huckster could come on and say, 'Our glasses are so good, O. J. endorses them in his search for his wife's killer...maybe have a full-lenght mirror in the picture with O.J. 's reflection. Or a golf-club manufacturer cold have an O.J. look-alike carrying its clubs and say "the search goes on and when I find him..." and then shake a 9 iron or a wood. Oh, well, just a thought.
I also believe that this is basically double-jeopardy.
If a person is "proven" innocent in a US court of law, then the results of that trial should be all that's needed to summarily defend against a civil lawsuit regarding the same matter.
To me, it's apparent that OJ did it, but that doesn't make this right.
Fletcher J
Wow then frank goldman can sell butcher knives under the OJ simpson name and get all the roylaties.
I bet OJ would pay that 44 mil if he didn't have ALL the expense of paying the detective he hired to find his wife's murderer !!!
So, if I kill your family while driving DUI and run a stop sign, but have lawyers clever enough to get me out of the criminal rap, you're not going to make a claim against my insurance company?
The lawyer may get you off on the DUI by questioning if you were actually DUI, and may also get you off the stop sign violation by questioning if you actually ran it, but you did hit me. That is probably not going to be questioned.
OJ did not need to present evidence of his innocence in the criminal case. In the civil case, the evidence of his guilt outweighed the evidence of his innocence (was there any?).
I believe that who "slavery" thing in the constitution might cover this.
A jury should question everything and find an answer in the evidence presented. In the OJ civil trial, the question of OJ's liability in the deaths of Ron and Nicole was asked, and the evidence presented answered that question to the jury's satisfaction every bit as much as the police photos, witness statements, etc. would answer the question in light of the hypothetical DUI/ stop sign scenario.
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