Wherein you, the readers, talk amongst yourselves.

So. O.J. Simpson. Going to jail… possibly for life. Did he get what was coming to him? Do you think it was possible for him to get a fair trial, given his history? Do you care?

It was exactly 13 years ago that O.J. Simpson's "not-guilty verdict heard 'round the world" was read in court, closing the end of the "trial of the century." I was in gym class, and a classmate had brought in a transistor radio, which we all huddled around, to listen to the verdict. I guess even our teacher was curious, because she let the whole thing go down without anyone getting sent to the principal's office. Here we are more than a decade later. O.J. Simpson faced a judge again Friday, but the end result was different this time around.

Where were you?

There are pre-teens currently navigating the treacherous social landscape of middle school who were still in diapers on that fateful day more than a decade ago, when O.J. Simpson was acquitted of murdering Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. Now, thirteen years to the day after that acquittal, the jury in Simpson's armed robbery and kidnapping trial will begin deliberations. Jurors were instructed to keep their focus on the current case, but is it possible for their minds not to wander back to that 13-year-old decision? He faces five years to life if convicted. [CNN]

UPDATE: O.J. Simpson was found guilty on all 12 counts of armed robbery and kidnapping. His co-defendant, Clarence "C.J." Stewart, was found guilty on the same counts. He could possibly spend the rest of his life in prison.

• DMX has figured out how going to the bathroom is supposed to work, now he just needs to figure out how to stay out of jail. [C&D]

• Nate Dogg just suffered his second stroke. He was still recovering from a stroke he had last December. [AHH]

• The prosecution in OJ Simpson's kidnapping and armed robbery case urged the jury yesterday to "write the final chapter" on Simpson. [E!]

• Vibe editor Danyel Smith is always on the defense these days. She's fighting back against allegations that the mag airbrushed the clothes off of Ciara to make her look naked on a recent cover. [MTV]

Now that he's free to roam the streets, pen catchy-when-you-don't-pay-attention-to-the-lyrics, misogynistic, and sexually-explicit songs, R. Kelly has joined an elite group of super-stars who narrowly avoided lengthy jail terms for major crimes. Yes, as an acquitted celebrity, he'll join an exclusive club of Famous People Who Got Away With It (Whether They Were Guilty Or Not). Check out some of the club members after the jump. At least two of them, like R. Kelly, have been ruled guilty in the court of public opinion, but who cares if what the public thinks if the jury says you're innocent!

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• Would you like for your kids to be schooled by Will Smith? [CB]

• Mya surely regrets ever getting herself involved with those G-Unit brats. [NB]

• Floyd Mayweather wants to quit boxing, which is new that interests boxing fans, I guess. He also wants to beat up Reggie Bush for "taking" Kim Kardashian. He also needs to get a life. [SR]

• When you release a really bad album that doesn't do well, try to just blame it on jail and your label. That's the route Foxy Brown is taking, anyway. [Bossip]

• Suge Knight's nemesis is really flirting with death, isn't he? [RWS]

• It's dangerous to be O.J. Simpson's significant other. But we knew that. [D-Listed]

Memorabilia dealer Mike Gilbert claims in his new tell-all book that O.J. Simpson confessed to killing Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman when the ex-footballer was high on the mary jane, sleeping pills, and booze. Gilbert is also taking credit for suggesting O.J. “bloat his hands” so the leather gloves wouldn’t fit, though it’s unclear whether he also intends to take credit from Johnny Cochrane for “If the gloves don’t fit, you must acquit.”

The book, How I Helped O.J. Get Away With Murder: The Shocking Inside Story of Violence, Loyalty, Regret and Remorse, whose claims Simpson’s camp is refuting, is supposed to hit bookstores today.

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The desiccated Supreme Court today overturned the death sentence of Allen Snyder, a black Louisiana man convicted of murdering his wife's lover in 1996.

In a 7-2 decision penned by poncey Justice Samuel Alito, the court ruled that the state trial judge erred when he allowed prosecutors to strike a specific black juror, a man who they said was being dismissed because he was a college student worried about missing class, not because he was black. The Supreme Court reacted with skepticism to that claim, and rightfully so: All five black jurors in Snyder's jury pool were dismissed, leaving an all-white group of 12. Then, throughout the court proceedings, which took place only months after the racially charged OJ Simpson trial, the lead prosecutor reminded the jury often of the "similarities" between the Simpson case and Snyder's case.

• Sinbad reveals Hillary Clinton's dirty little Bosnia secret. [WP]

• Remy Ma's probably hoping her attorney has some tricks up his sleeve. [AHH]

• The Biggie movie gets a Faith Evans and a Lil Kim — the booted chick from 3LW! [BV]

• Nia Long has a young boyfriend. Or something. [Bossip]

• TMZ paid $165,000 for the tape of OJ's robbery. I don't even think the stuff he was robbing was worth that much. [TSG]

• Bill Cosby and Hugh Hefner bond over jazz. And nothing else, I'm sure. [AP]

• Everyone OJ Simpson comes in contact with writes a book. That says a lot about the both Simpson and the company he keeps. [TMZ]

• Ladies, if any of you have friends who subscribe to "Baller Alert," please sit them down and give them a good talking to. [NB]

• The internet is buzzing with Kelly-Rowland-posing-in-Playboy-rumors. Since the internet is also buzzing with Kelly-Rowland-got-implants-rumors, I'm happy that Miss Kelly will be putting her new boobs to good use. In the fictional rumor world, at least. [C&D]

• Mystikal, who's been locked up for sexual battery since 2003, was just denied parole. I barely remember who that is. [RWS]

• The Glow in the Dark tour dates have been announced — you know you were waiting. [MTV]

• All the best quotes come from Snoop's reality show. [MG]

• Is Jamie Lynn Spears going to make an appearance in Lil Romeo's new reality show? [SOHH]

• After rap, of course, country music has the most references to alcohol, drugs, tobacco. Oh, y'all have never heard "Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off?" [Reuters]

• At some point, you've got to ask this woman, why the hell were you O.J. Simpson's girlfriend to begin with? [PH]

Mike Gilbert, who, by virtue of being O.J. Simpson's sports agent for 18 years, was probably already a scumbag, is proving it with a new book called How I Helped O. J. Get Away With Murder.

"…the book will "detail O.J.'s late-night confession" and offer new evidence showing that Simpson did kill his ex-wife Nicole Brown and her boyfriend Ron Goldman. The book also promises "information on Gilbert's crucial role in obtaining the not guilty verdict and why he stayed silent for so long.""

Oh, but he's not that much of a asshole. A percentage (maybe .00000001%?) of the proceeds will go to the Make-A-Wish foundation. If only two young kids in the mid-90s had made a wish that their dad wouldn't allegedly murder their mom and her friend, then allegedly get away with it, then years later write a book about how all of it came to pass, then allegedly steal some sports memorabilia at gunpoint, Mike Gilbert wouldn't have a book to write to begin with. [NYO]

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say the answer is "both."