The jury of the O.J. Simpson trial began deliberating on Friday in Las Vegas in order to determine if, in fact, the former football star and his codefendant Clarence "C.J." Stewart are guilty of leading the armed robbery and kidnapping of two sports memorabilia dealers.

Well, everyone agreed that Simpson, along with four other men, did march into a room at the Palace Station hotel and casino in September 2007. The jury is now to decide whether O.J.’s initiated the hold up and, if he did, what reasons he had.

Prosecutors claim that Simpson led the whole operation behind the robbery, as he wanted to retrieve some of his personal belongings, including his footballs and plaques that were allegedly stolen from him. The dealers say that the objects related to the career of the former NFL star, $100,000 worth of memorabilia, were theirs to sell, while Simpson claims that he actually lost the items while trying to hide them from the family of Ronald Goldman.

The altercation only lasted about six minutes, enough for the defendants to be charged with a dozen crimes, including felony kidnapping, armed robbery, conspiracy, burglary, coercion and assault with a deadly weapon. He faces mandatory prison time if convicted of armed robbery, and if found guilty of kidnapping, he could receive a life sentence.

O.J., 61, denies the charges and says that he only wanted to take back what was his, but did not ask anyone to bring any gun to the hotel room. Meanwhile, four former codefendants, O.J’s partners in the robbery originally charged in the same case who pleaded guilty, all took the witness stand for the prosecution. Two of them say that they were encouraged by Simpson to come to the Las Vegas hotel heavily armed.

Another piece of evidence was presented by Dist. Atty. David Roger, who played parts of some secretly recorded conversations of Simpson’s plan to take back his belongings with “the boys” whom he wanted to "look menacing.” He apparently also asked two of his associates to “bring some heat,” but that statement was never captured on tape.

Simpson's lawyer, Yale Galanter, told the jury that his client only wanted his things back, but never indented a robbery, although things seemed to have gotten out of hand. “Being stupid and being frustrated is not being a crook," he says, also accusing the officials and the media of being biased and focusing all the attention on Simpson’s persona, rather than his gestures, as a result of the so-called “trial of the century,” in which he was cleared of murder charges stemming from the June 1994 stabbing deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman.