O.J. Simpson jurors said Sunday night the Juice convicted himself with his own words - and they bristled at suggestions they are racists.
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PHOTOS: THE RISE AND FALL OF O.J. SIMPSON
The panel said secretly recorded tapes of the football great discussing the botched gunpoint memorabilia heist in a Sin City hotel room sealed his fate.
"The laws that were laid out were the laws," juror Dora Pettit said. "And they were clearly broken."
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The jurors also rejected complaints by Simpson's lawyers that the panel was biased against Simpson because there were no blacks among them. One juror identified herself in a court questionnaire as Hispanic.
"We've been painted as an all-white jury who hates O.J., and that's just not true," said Pettit, adding that she prayed for Simpson and doesn't care if he does a day in prison.
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After deliberating 13 hours Friday, the jury of nine women and three men found Simpson, 61, and pal Clarence (C.J.) Stewart guilty of all 12 criminal charges stemming from the Sept. 13, 2007 holdup.
The memorabilia dealers told cops Simpson had robbed them at gunpoint.
Simpson unsuccessfully maintained that he never saw a gun and only wanted to retrieve family heirlooms stolen by a former manager.
The jurors said at an extraordinary news conference that they virtually discounted the witnesses against Simpson, whom they branded as unreliable crooks trying to save their own skins.
Juror Michelle Lyons, 41, said a key piece of evidence was a postrobbery recording made at a restaurant in which Simpson acknowledged his pal Michael McClinton was packing his "piece."
"We heard it quite clearly," Lyons said. "And we heard it more times than anyone else heard it."
Without the tapes, jurors would have almost certainly acquitted Simpson, they said.
"It would have been a very weak case," Pettit said. Juror David Wieberg, 51, chimed in, "Yes, a weak case," and other jurors nodded in agreement.
Asked why they convicted Stewart, 54, whom some observers pegged as a bit player, juror Teresa Owens said, "The thing that clinched it for me is he drove the car. ...He came out of that room with items that didn't belong to him."
Added juror Consuelo Saldivar: "He didn't leave. If he walked in and saw what was going on, he could have walked out."
The jury also emphatically denied that they convicted Simpson to make up for his controversial 1995 acquittal in the murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman.
In pretrial questionnaires, five of the 12 seated jurors admitted they disagreed with Simpson's 1995 acquittal.
"I think he did it," wrote juror Sheridan Eckart, 55, when asked her opinion on the murder trial. "But I wasn't there to hear the case, so I really can't say."
Still, all 12 said they could "set aside" personal feelings.
Simpson lawyer Yale Galanter vowed to appeal the verdict.
"We are going to fast-track it," Galanter said. "Our notice will be filed 30 seconds after he's sentenced."
Simpson's kidnapping charge carries a potential life sentence.
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