OJ Simpson has been sentenced to 15 years in a US state prison for kidnapping and armed robbery today.
Watch Judge Jackie Glass sentencing OJ Simpson to 15 years for kidnapping and armed robbery.
He will be eligible for parole in five years.
The former American football star was found guilty of all 12 charges he faced in October after more than 13 continuous hours of deliberations - 13 years to the day after he was cleared of double murder in the US's 'trial of the century'.
An all-white jury of nine women and three men unanimously found that Simpson recruited five other men to help him rob two sports memorabilia dealers at gunpoint in a Las Vegas hotel room on 13 September last year.
US prosecutors recommended an 18-year sentence for the 61-year-old former actor and US NFL star, although he could have received a life sentence.
Simpson, who did not give evidence during his three-week trial, showed little emotion as he was led from the Clark County District Court in handcuffs, and has been in custody since his conviction.
His defence team claimed he had only been recovering personal items stolen from his trophy room and said he was unaware that his cohorts were armed.
But four of Simpson's accomplices struck plea deals and gave evidence against the former sports star in the trial, which attracted much less attention than his high-profile circus-like 1995 case when he was cleared of murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend, Ronald Goldman, in Los Angeles.
1995 case caught world's attention
The 1995 verdict shocked the world and prompted debates over the racial elements of the case and the suitability of televised trials.
During this year's trial, prosecuter David Roger said Simpson was the leader of a conspiracy and none of the men with him cared about the memorabilia in the room.
Several game balls, plaques and photos once owned by Simpson, who was inducted in to the NFL Hall of Fame during his career, were among the items stolen.
Deputy district attorney Chris Owens added that Simpson took a gang of men to the Palace Station Hotel and Casino to retrieve items he lost while trying to hide them from the family of Mr Goldman and the California court which levied a $33.5m (€26.4m)civil wrongful death judgment against Simpson.
He urged the jury to uncover the true face of the former star, and said it was not necessarily the one he puts out to the world.
Four of the five men who accompanied Simpson to the casino - Charles Cashmore, Walter 'Goldie' Alexander, Michael 'Spencer' McClinton and Charles Ehrlich - accepted plea deals and agreed to testify for the prosecution.
The fifth, Clarence 'CJ' Stewart, 54 - his golfing friend and co-defendant in the trial - was also convicted of all charges and received the same sentence, 15 years, as Simpson today.
Judge warns against revenge
Yale Galanter, defending Simpson, said the case had taken on a life of its own because of Simpson's involvement. He confirmed his client would appeal.
'Every co-operator, every person who had a gun, every person who had an ulterior motive, every person who signed a book deal, every person who got paid money - the police, the district attorney's office, is only interested in one thing: Mr Simpson,' Mr Galanter said.
'He has always been the target of this investigation, and nothing else mattered.'
Mr Galanter said he knew there was a lot of baggage going in to the trial and added: 'I don't like to use the word payback. I can tell you from the beginning my biggest concern... was whether or not the jury would be able to separate their very strong feelings about Mr Simpson and judge him fairly and honestly.'
Judge Jackie Glass, who rejected several mistrial motions and kept a tight rein on the proceedings, also warned jurors against trying to punish Simpson over the death of his former wife.
Before the trial began, one prospective juror was dismissed after she told the court she felt he got away with murder in 1995.
In 2006, Simpson wrote a book called If I Did It, which set out how he might have murdered his wife, had he been so inclined.
But the book was withdrawn and pulped by HarperCollins shortly before being published.
In August last year, a Florida bankruptcy court gave the rights to the book to the Goldman family, who published it under the title I Did It: Confessions of the Killer.
The former star and his almost-forgotten co-defendant Stewart were both found guilty of all 12 charges they faced.
These were two counts of first degree kidnapping, two counts of armed robbery, two counts of assault with a deadly weapon, two counts of coercion with a deadly weapon, burglary while in possession of a deadly weapon and conspiracy to commit a crime, kidnapping and robbery.
