A judge on Tuesday sentenced former Las Vegas Raiders star wide receiver Henry Ruggs II to three to nine years in prison for his role in a fatal drunk driving accident that killed a 23-year-old woman and her dog.
One person that didn’t understand the leniency of the sentencing was NFL Hall of Famer O.J. Simpson. The 76-year-old Heisman Trophy winner took to X, the social media platform formally known as Twitter, to share his thoughts on the sentencing with his nearly 900,000 followers.
The math just does not add up. pic.twitter.com/7sCKLEdzyq
— O.J. Simpson (@TheRealOJ32) August 9, 2023
“I know I went to college on a football scholarship but somehow this math is not adding up to me. You’re driving a car at roughly 160 miles per hour on a public street and end up killing a girl and her dog and you get three to ten years?”, O.J. asked rhetorically.
“You go to a hotel room that you’re invited to to retrieve your own personal stolen property, property I now have because it was ruled to be mine by the state of California, and you get nine to 33 years?”
Simpson got sentenced to a possible 33-year sentence in 2007 when he entered a Palace Hotel station with a gun, looking to retrieve memorabilia from his playing days. Some legal observers believe Simpson got a harsh sentence as retribution for his acquittal in the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, more than a decade after that case got adjucated.
Simpson served nine years of that prison sentence and earned parole in 2017.