Las Vegas - Former American football legend O. J. Simpson went on trial Monday on charges of armed robbery but suffered an immediate setback when the judge rejected a request from his attorneys to ask potential jurors if they considered Simpson a murderer.
Simpson, 61, was sensationally acquitted in the 1994 slayings of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman, though a civil jury later found him liable for the deaths.
Now he is on trial for allegedly robbing two dealers in sports collectibles at gunpoint at a seedy Las Vegas hotel last September. Together with codefendant Clarence "C. J." Stewart, 54, Simpson faces a dozen charges, including kidnapping, which carries a potential life sentence.