OJ has CTE

[ms_ann_thrope]

"He's often not coherent," says Pardo. "He'll sit in the corner, mumbling, talking and arguing with himself. He'll never admit that there's anything wrong with him, but I once saw him argue with himself over a piece of chicken, saying things like, 'I'm going to eat that piece of chicken. . . No, don't eat that piece of chicken . . . Come on and eat that piece of chicken.' He just goes into these zones where he doesn't know what he's doing, then he pops out of it."

Oh...man.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

"He weighs at least 300 pounds and suffers from diabetes," Pardo says. "He got new knees before he went into prison, but the extra weight is hurting him because his knees weren't made to hold that. He needs to lose weight."

He probably spends a lot of time on those knees...

 

[phrodeau]

From 2013:

http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_...eason-new-trial-blame-former-attorney-instead

Simpson and his attorneys sought a theory that could convince a judge that his convictions for robbery and kidnapping and the resulting prison sentence of nine to 33 years were somehow unjust and that Simpson must have a new trial. Their deliberations came only a few weeks after the family of Dave Duerson filed a headline-grabbing wrongful death lawsuit asserting that the league didn't do enough to prevent the concussions that led to the disintegration of Duerson's life and his suicide.

That's it, they concluded, as they connected Simpson's plight to the concussion crisis. It was the concussions that did it to Duerson and to Simpson. Simpson's concussions were responsible for everything -- the day of drinking, the bizarre plan to recapture lost Simpson heirlooms, the confrontation with two memorabilia dealers in a cramped room in a down-market hotel, the arrest, the conviction and the incarceration. Simpson and his lead attorney, Patricia Palm, quickly prepared and filed in court a sworn statement in which Simpson stated that he had suffered "numerous blows to my head and/or landed on my head violently" in his four years at USC and his 11 years in the NFL.

In an echo of the claims other NFL players were making, he added, "I was knocked out of games for such head blows repeatedly in the 1970s & and other times I continued playing despite hard blows to my head during the football games."

The Simpson defense team even hired a forensic psychiatrist named Norton Roitman, a professional expert witness who, according to papers filed in Clark County District Court, was prepared to testify for Simpson that "repetitive blows to the skull can produce a neurological impairment that involves confusion and problems with judgment that can impair processing and perception."

The expert witness added, somewhat unnecessarily, that the "combination of repetitive injury and alcohol use can produce impairment beyond each element alone."

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

They could autopsy his brain and know for sure...

 

[Super-Surprise]

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/03/12/article-2579227-1C3B5CE500000578-314_634x428.jpg

 

[Mike_Yates]

Maybe this is a trick to get transferred to a mental institution instead of a prison.

 

[OldJourno]

Maybe this is a trick to get transferred to a mental institution instead of a prison.

He'll be fighting you for computer time.

 

[Christobal]

If they would just let him out he could find the real killer. And the real guy with the gun that he was just accidentally in the room with.

 

[Hard_Rom]

Entirely possible. He went from a famous hero type to infamous criminal. Some guys who get hit a lot have actual holes in their brains. Concussions, prescription drugs, drink quite a bit and becoming a thoroughly unlikeable fellow is quite possible.

Yeah never know.