Items Simpson stole to be sold

SANTA MONICA, Calif. - Fred Goldman failed to grab O.J. Simpson's Hall of Fame ring in a California courtroom yesterday, but he hit the jackpot in Las Vegas, where a judge ordered that most of the items Simpson robbed from memorabilia dealers be returned to California.

The judge ordered the items commemorating Simpson's glory days as a football player be sold to satisfy part of a $33.5 million civil wrongful-death judgment awarded to the families of Goldman's son, Ronald, and Nicole Brown Simpson after the disgraced football star was acquitted of their 1994 murders.

"This is precisely what Mr. Simpson sought to avoid, having the stuff end up in the hands of Fred Goldman," Goldman's lawyer, David Cook, said. The man Cook believes has the ring testified that he has no idea where it is.