Dave Courvoisier's Blog

He's in a cell right now, but that's only temporary until Dec 5th, when he gets assigned to his permanent quarters.

Orenthal James Simpson was pronounced guilty on all 12 counts last night around 10pm in a Las Vegas courtroom, and for that I spent more than an hour-and-a-half on air, live, with no potty breaks, and no script. 

Such a circumstance is one of the few pleasures/challenges of my TV News career left to me.  It's almost like election night.  Fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants journalism.  Until it was over, I couldn't tell you how long I was sitting there.  It requires total concentration and creativity and composure. 

Yeah, sure, but sometimes I think all we did was really enrage thousands of viewers who only REALLY just wanted to see the season premiere of NUMB3RS.  And boy did we hear from them!  In droves!

At any rate, now OJ is in a cell in the Clark County Detention Center, and I'm exhausted.  His two kidnapping convictions carry a minimum 5 yrs to life, so if the judge puts them concurrent, the very LEAST that's mandated for his sentencing will be that: 5 years.  Consecutively: 10 years minimum.  He's 61.  That's not even counting the other convictions.

Odd that his conviction comes 13 years TO THE DAY that he was acquitted by an LA jury.  I was IN Los Angeles that night, reporting on the jury's decision.  'Never thought our paths would cross in this rather indirect way 13 years later.

I had some good ideas for a blog on the topic of voice acting tonite, but decided to do this instead.  'Hope you don't mind.  I'll be back on track tomorrow.

CourVO