“The gun component is critical here because it would increase Simpson’s prison time if he ultimately is convicted,” says CBS News legal analyst Andrew Cohen. “That’s why he’s already claimed that he had no idea that guns would be used to as he put it get back his stuff.”

Bruce Fromong said he had expected to meet with an anonymous buyer on Sept. 13, when Simpson arrived and shouted that the items belonged to him.

“O.J. was screaming, ‘This is all my s–. This all belongs to me. You stole this from me. Let’s pack up. Let’s get out of here,”‘ Fromong said.

“The hearing so far is not so much a dress rehearsal as it is a recited outline of what the trial is likely to look like from the prosecution’s side of the fence,” said Cohen. “Simpson and his lawyers are sitting, watching, listening and mostly staying silent as the DA puts on a streamlined case to establish probable cause that a crime was committed.”

Fromong, who testified he has known Simpson since the early 1990s, said the confrontation lasted no more than five or 밀양출장마사지 six minutes and ended with the group stuffing hundreds of items into pillowcases and leaving the hotel room.

At one point, as everything was being packed up, Fromong said he told Simpson: “O.J., those are my Joe Montana lithos.

“I said, ‘O.J., that’s my stuff. That doesn’t have anything to do with anything.”

On Thursday, Simpson arrived at the courthouse in a black Hummer, surrounded by a contingent of lawyers and about a dozen uniformed officers. He did not stop to talk or make eye contact as he made his way into the building and through a metal detector.

In Simpson’s mind, according to a close friend, the Las Vegas charges are rooted in the former football star being found not guilty in the 1994 slayings of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman.

“He believes he’s being tried for that now,” said Tom Scotto, 45, a North Miami Beach, Fla., auto body shop owner.

“He’s taking this serious. It is serious,” said Scotto, who traveled from Florida with Simpson and sat in a courtroom gallery with about 50 spectators. Among them was Simpson’s older sister, Mattie Shirley Simpson, Baker, 64, of Elk Grove, Calif.

Simpson and co-defendants Clarence “C.J.” Stewart and Charles Ehrlich face 12 charges, including kidnapping, armed robbery, assault with a deadly weapon, conspiracy and coercion.

A kidnapping conviction could result in a sentence of life in prison with the possibility of parole. An armed robbery conviction could mean mandatory prison time.