MIAMI — O.J. Simpson’s daughter was sentenced Wednesday in connection with a confrontation with Miami police in 2005.
The scuffle allegedly happened when Sydney Simpson was at Ransom Everglades School for a boys’ varsity basketball game against Gulliver Prep. She had graduated from the school the year before and her brother, Justin, was attending Gulliver at the time.
Police said that Simpson yelled profanities at the officers after the basketball game. Police officers asked her to quiet down three times as a crowd of more than 15 people gathered, according to the police report.
An officer said that while Simpson was being placed into custody, she slapped another officer’s hand, leading to the resisting arrest charge.
Wednesday, Simpson agreed to 50 hours of community service in a deal with prosecutors.
Simpson, 20, did not appear in court, but her lawyer, Patricia Jones, accepted the deal on her behalf in a teleconference with Miami-Dade County Judge Maria Ortiz.
Simpson was charged with resisting arrest without violence, punishable by up to a year in jail, and disorderly conduct, which could have carried a possible 60-day jail sentence.
Under the deal, Simpson will have the charges dropped if she completes the community work.
O.J. Simpson moved to South Florida after he was acquitted of murder in the slayings of his children’s mother, Nicole Brown Simpson, and a companion, Ron Goldman, in California in 1994.
A civil jury in 1997 held Simpson liable for the killings and ordered him to pay the victims’ survivors $33.5 million. Much of that judgment remains unpaid.
