New York Daily News

OK TO HIT O.J.

Hope someone beats crap out of him: vic’s dad

- BY NANCY DILLON With Christophe­r Brennan ndillon@nydailynew­s.com

O.J. SIMPSON doesn’t deserve special protection his last two months in prison, the father of murder victim Ron Goldman told the Daily News Friday.

Speaking a day after Simpson won parole in his 2007 armed-robbery case, Fred Goldman (photo inset) said he was “disappoint­ed” with the Friday announceme­nt the former NFL star is moving to protective custody at Lovelock Correction­al Facility in Nevada.

“Honestly, I wouldn’t feel bad if somebody beat the crap out of him,” Goldman told The News. “He’s about to get a second chance. Ron didn’t get a second chance. Nicole didn’t get a second chance. It’s very troubling to me,” he said.

“He’ll get to walk out of there. Ron can’t walk at all. That killer has been breathing for nine years — something Ron lost the chance to do on June 12, 1994.”

A spokeswoma­n for the Nevada Department of Correction­s called the custody change a precaution­ary measure, meant to protect Simpson from other inmates who might try to harm him for the infamy.

“There are people in there for life who don’t have anything to lose,” Brooke Keast, a prison spokeswoma­n told The News. “They might think (targeting Simpson) could make them a big name.”

“Why would anyone want to hurt him now? They’ve had nine years to do it,” Goldman asked Friday. He said Simpson’s new private quarters all but guarantee smooth sailing leading up to his expected Oct. 1 release. “If there’s any question about whether he can keep his nose clean, this will help him,” Goldman said. Sister Kim Goldman said she wishes they’d considered Simpson’s prior conviction for spousal abuse and the wrongful death civil judgment. “Just because you don’t commit crimes behind bars, how is that a litmus test for what you’ll do on the outside? He has a civil judgment because a jury found him responsibl­e for killing people,” she told The News.

She said it felt like the board members asked softball questions, let Simpson ramble on with lengthy excuses for his crimes, and failed to focus in on his remorse. “It felt like they were going down a list and it didn’t matter what he said because they already made their decision.”

Simpson, 70, was acquitted of the 1994 murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman after a jury deliberate­d only four hours at what’s been dubbed the Trial of the Century. He was later found civilly liable and ordered to pay a multimilli­on-dollar wrongful death settlement to the victims’ families.

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