OJ Simpson has been ordered to stand trial over an alleged armed robbery at a Las Vegas hotel.
Las Vegas Judge Joe Bonaventure ordered Simpson (60) and two other men to stand trial on 12 charges, including kidnapping and armed robbery, arising from the September 13th incident at the Palace Station Hotel and Casino.
OJ Simpson appears in court during a preliminary hearing at the Clark County Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas. REUTERS/ Andrew Gombert/Pool
He set trial for Simpson, Clarence Stewart and Charles Ehrlich to begin on November 28th, although that date will almost certainly be pushed back.
Defence attorneys asked that the case be dismissed because it was based largely on the testimony of witnesses who they said lacked credibility.
Judge Bonaventure agreed that prosecution witnesses, some of whom had criminal records or were testifying in exchange for leniency, had credibility issues but that their credibility should be left to the jury.
Prosecutors say Simpson led five accomplices in stealing the memorabilia at gunpoint from Bruce Fromong and Alfred Beardsley.
Walter Alexander, Charles Cashmore and Michael McClinton were also charged in the case initially but agreed to plead guilty and testify for the prosecution.
Simpson, a one-time American football star-turned-actor, was acquitted of the June 12th, 1994, murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman.
A civil court jury later found Simpson liable for the deaths and ordered him to pay $33.5 million in damages to the victims' families, a judgment that remains largely unpaid.