OT: On the other hand, He's back too!!

Simpson, 61, faces 12 charges stemming from a confrontation in a hotel room in September last year after which he and a gang of gun-toting cohorts left with pillow cases stuffed full of sports memorabilia.

In the state of Nevada, kidnapping and armed robbery both carry potential life sentences.

The process of seating a jury actually began in mid-August when 500 prospective jurors filled out a 26-page questionnaire.

The judge took great pains to ensure that jurors were not seated *****mained outraged that Simpson was acquitted of the 1994 slaying of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman.

"If you are here thinking you are going to punish Mr. Simpson for what happened in Los Angeles in 1995 this is not the case for you," Glass said Monday.

"I mean really, truly, folks," Glass said. "I’m not kidding around.

Can you put that aside and understand that the case we are trying here and the info you’re going to hear about here is totally separate from that case?"

In the current case, Simpson and a group of associates allegedly stormed a room at the Palace Station Hotel-Casino, brandishing weapons, to retrieve memorabilia largely related to the former football star’s sporting career that he has insisted was stolen from him.

Simpson has insisted he did not know that anyone had guns and said he never saw weapons. Four of the gang, including the two who carried firearms, have struck plea agreements with prosecutors for reduced prison sentences in exchange for their testimony against Simpson.

Opening statements were expected to begin Monday.

Simpson, a football Hall of Fame inductee, also was a television advertising pitchman and Hollywood comic film actor before the 1994 murders.