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.
“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.
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