Convened for the first time since their landmark decision Friday, several of the jurors cited a parade of unreliable prosecution witnesses with convictions of their own and a weakness for checking their Keno tickets during testimony. The more important evidence was a collection of taped conversations that occurred between Simpson and pals "before, during and after the heist." Least incriminating, they swore, was Simpson's 1995 acquittal on charges of murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman:

Teresa Owens, one of the jurors in the Simpson robbery case, said any suggestion that the jury found Simpson guilty because of the verdict 13 years ago is "terrible."

"There's reports right now that we've had some kind of vendetta against Mr. Simpson for ... 13 years ago," she said. "That in no way had anything to do with this case whatsoever."

No matter: Simpson's defense attorney's filed an appeal on that basis within a minute of his conviction, noting that almost half of the jurors seated admitted they disagreed with the verdict in his 1995 criminal trial. (One reportedly went so far as to reply in her questionnaire, "I think he did it." No problems there!)

Meanwhile, we're hearing more today from Vegas's finest one-eyed gossip that Simpson actually had an acquittal party planned for Friday. "He was predicting a hung jury," said a local radio talk-show host, one of whose guests Friday — a "Simpson associate" — invited him to join the Juice and his gang at an undisclosed location after the acquittal. Alas. And new Facebook makes it so hard to retract those big event blasts to your friends, too. Here's hoping it was a good time; going-away parties are often some of our favorites. And early December is wide open! Let us know if we can bring anything.

• Simpson jury: We relied on tapes, not witnesses [CNN]

• Simpson planned acquittal party [LVRJ]

From left, OJ Simpson heralded as a triple threat in 1977 (athlete! TV star! potential psychopath!), Olivia Newton-John had America hooked on roller skating in 1979, and 15-year old Brooke Shields was dressed in a loincloth in 1980.

Travolta appeared on an 1983 cover saying Look How Straight I Am!, Fabio was gruesomely all the rage in 1993, and some sick editor decided it would be a hoot to "disrobe" Judge Judy in 1999.

Eight entire years ago, the mag wondered if perhaps, there might be something a little kooky with Britney and her grown-up ways (prophets, those editors!), Jen and Brad tied the knot in 2000, and Tom Cruise ran off with his second beard his Vanilla Sky co-star Penelope Cruz, leaving Nicole Kidman "shocked," naturally.

• ARCHIVE: PEOPLE.COM [People]

"I don't know, Mr Simpson, what the heck you were thinking," Glass told him. "I don't know if it's just arrogance or ignorance .... or both."

Prosecutors asked for Simpson to be held behind bars until his trial or for new bail of at least $1 million.

But Simpson's lawyer, Yale Galanter, said Simpson was neither a danger to the community nor a flight risk, noting that he "cannot even walk out of his front door without TV cameras following him."

"Mr. Simpson is truly contrite about what has occurred," Galanter told the judge.

Simpson's bail was doubled to $250,000, a sum he could manage to quickly recover by auctioning off a series of personal, in-home readings of best-selling confessional If I Did It on eBay. He was then whisked away in a white Mercedes, free to work on his golf game or chat up strangers on airplanes, until April, when he faces the real music: 12 charges, including kidnapping and armed robbery, that could put him away for the rest of his life.

[Photo: The Insider]

• O.J. Simpson leaves jail after judge's lecture [Reuters]

"[S]uddenly, the boisterous voice of a man aroused me from my almost-sleep. It was OJ Simpson, and he was sitting right behind me. He was beyond chatty, to the point of being manic. He would talk to anyone that listened to him."

First, the double-murder acquitee yammered on about his latest brush with the law - being charged with kidnapping and robbery for allegedly sticking up two sports dealers he claims ripped off his memorabilia. "He said he knew this guy, the guy had helped him move out and put a lot of his stuff in warehouses, and he stole the stuff. Claims there were pictures of his family, etc., etc. Claimed the gun part was '[bleep]ing bull[bleep]' - but he didn't sound all that convincing," our spy said.

Then it was on to his knowledge of brewing. "He was talking to two Mexican guys and he claimed that Dos Equis is really a German beer, made in Mexico." [...]

Later, at the baggage claim, the disgraced athlete "noticed a kid in a Bills jersey and was like, 'Yeah, Buffalo Bills, baby.' "

If Simpson's cheerful volunteering of the time he "very nearly strangled an airport bartender to death for serving a Tecate when I specifically ordered a Beck's—ha ha!" seems unusual for a man who was days away from standing before a judge on kidnapping charges, you've obviously not walked a mile in his Bruno Maglis, for, as his lawyer explained, this is a man who has no reason but to put his every faith in the American judicial system's ability to take him at his word when he insists he is innocent of the charges for which he is extremely guilty.

• OJ'S WACKY IN-FLIGHT SEMINAR [NY Post]
• Simpson will stand trial again [LAT]

• Previously: Jamie Foxx Feels The Love At His Walk of Fame Ceremony [Defamer]

· Thomas Riccio, the auction house owner who initially tipped O.J. off about the stolen memorabilia and secretly recorded every "How you like that shit, motherfucker?!" exchanged throughout the shakedown, was allegedly promised 200 signed copies of If I Did It for his sting-arranging services, each inscribed, no joke, "This book is B.S. None of it is true. Regards, O.J. Simpson." [foxnews.com]
· Productivity-killing Fun Time: Use your office's laser printer to print out a copy of the original police report, then slide the pages inside a blank file folder to make it look like you're actually working! [The Insider Online]
· A press release in our inbox titled, "NATIONAL ENQUIRER EXCLUSIVE: O.J. High on Cocaine During Hotel Raid!" is fairly self-explanatory. [nationalenquirer.com]
· TMZ's magical evidence-procuring elves unearth yet another cuss-filled audiotape, this time of hold-up victim Bruce Fromong going off on Simpson an hour after the incident, and containing at least two words of great interest to Fred Goldman: "Nobody puts a gun in my fucking face. I stood up for that motherfucker...while he was in jail. I stood up for him in the press. I stood up for him o the stand. I helped him set up his fucking offshore accounts. Don't fuck with me." [TMZ]
· Greta Van Susteren managed to track down Kato Kaelin for his insights on this matter. He has none, but be sure to catch his Ask.com commercial and his show Eye For An Eye, apparently in its second season, somewhere! [On The Record]
· Wanting to know more about the upwardly mobile, gentlemanly entrepreneurs of the sports memorabilia trading industry? Look no further. [Newsweek]

A judge on Tuesday gave Fred Goldman a week to come up with a list of sports memorabilia O.J. Simpson is accused of stealing from a Las Vegas hotel room, but he refused to order Simpson to hand over his earnings from everything from autograph signings to videogames. [...]

Tuesday's hearing was originally scheduled in connection with any money the Goldmans say Simpson earned from a video game featuring his likeness.

The ruling is a setback for Goldman, who had hoped to collect on sales of O.J. Simpson's Stab Hero III, featuring Wii's motion-sensing slashing knife controls. Goldman will therefore be hard at work in the coming days drawing up the judge's requested list of O.J. memorabilia, dreaming of one day being able to list them on eBay filed under "Vintage Sports Memorabilia > Football-NFL > Motherfucking Stolen Shit."

Bonus Link: What's Kato Kaelin doing during all of this? Eating pizza with power pop group The Lashes!

• Judge rejects request for Simpson items [AP]

• Entire O.J. Confrontation — It's Crazazy! [TMZ]

· TMZ obtained audio of the Palace Station hotel room incident recorded by Thomas Riccio, an auction house owner Simpson brought along, which begins with O.J. shouting, "Don't let nobody out of this room. You motherfuckers! Think you can steal my shit and get away with it?" and proceeds to get more threatening from there. [TMZ]
· Simpson was arrested at 11:05 a.m. at the Palms by Las Vegas police, and is being held without bail until his bond hearing 7:45 a.m. Wednesday morning. [LAT]

· Simpson was charged with two counts each of robbery with a deadly weapon and assault with a deadly weapon, and one count each of conspiracy to commit burglary and burglary with a firearm. The first two carry sentences of anywhere from 6 to 70 years in prison. [NY Times]
· Fred Goldman noted Simpson's "arrogant swagger" during his perp walk, and expresses a hope that Vegas prosecutors "cross every t and dot every i." [cbsnews.com]
· Alfred Beardsley, the alleged robbery victim, has already received an apology from Simpson. He says he "feels bad" about what went down, claiming he has known O.J. for years, and that they "fight like brothers." [TMZ]
· If I Did It currently sits at the #2 position on the Amazon best seller list, unseated by Alan Greenspan's The Age of Turbulence, an equally irresistible memoir full of the saucy boudoir secrets of the former Fed chairman and Andrea Mitchell. [Amazon]

Simpson has yet to be arrested, but doesn't deny the incident took place, having told the AP it was a "sting operation" to recover personal items he claimed were stolen. We're certain this entire incident will prove to be little more than a misunderstanding between memorabilia dealer and a beloved sports hero, with the hunt for the real sociopathic thief and Glock-toting henchmen about to begin.

• Simpson Denies Breaking Into Hotel Room [AP]
• Did OJ Rob a Guy? — Allegations of Guns Drawn [TMZ]

After saying it would not stock copies of If I Did It in its stores, citing lack of customer demand, the chain told The Associated Press on Thursday that it would indeed carry the book.

Since the initial decision on Aug. 21 against stocking the book, but selling it online, Barnes & Noble spokeswoman Mary Ellen Keating said: "We've been monitoring the pre-orders and customer requests and have concluded that enough customers have expressed interest in buying the book to warrant stocking it in our stores. We do not intend to promote the book but we will stock it in our stores because our customers are asking for it."

And with that, Barnes & Noble now joins the ranks of fellow morally compromised chain Borders, who had pledged all along to stock the book, albeit with none of the fanfare they usually reserve for Michael Crichton's latest laser-mounted velociraptor adventure. Surely, the brisk sales can only be good news for Fred Goldman, who sweat blood and tears to wrest the publishing rights away from Simpson, and whose seal of approval on every cover—reading "The Ron Goldman Foundation for Justice Authorized Edition"—assures buyers of the veracity of the guilty, gory admissions they can expect for their $24.95.

• Barnes & Noble changes mind on Simpson book [AP]