So that does it. There will be no white Bronco to whisk O.J. Simpson homeward, no Cochranesque rhymes to grease a trail out the courtroom door. The Juice is cold and freshly squeezed, convicted late Friday on a dozen charges including armed robbery, assault and kidnapping with a deadly weapon. All told, Simpson faces life in prison for his role in the forcible theft of sports collectibles from a Las Vegas hotel room in Sept. 2007 (he's likelier to get seven to 10 years when sentenced Dec. 5), and while Simpson Murder Trial alums ranging from Fred Goldman to Marcia Clark are all but popping champagne corks at word of his date with the slammer, the all-white jury that convicted him insisted over the weekend that justice is blind — if not necessarily deaf.Convened for the first time since their landmark decision Friday, several of the jurors cited a parade of unreliable prosecution witnesses with convictions of their own and a weakness for checking their Keno tickets during testimony. The more important evidence was a collection of taped conversations that occurred between Simpson and pals "before, during and after the heist." Least incriminating, they swore, was Simpson's 1995 acquittal on charges of murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman:

Teresa Owens, one of the jurors in the Simpson robbery case, said any suggestion that the jury found Simpson guilty because of the verdict 13 years ago is "terrible." "There's reports right now that we've had some kind of vendetta against Mr. Simpson for ... 13 years ago," she said. "That in no way had anything to do with this case whatsoever."

No matter: Simpson's defense attorney's filed an appeal on that basis within a minute of his conviction, noting that almost half of the jurors seated admitted they disagreed with the verdict in his 1995 criminal trial. (One reportedly went so far as to reply in her questionnaire, "I think he did it." No problems there!) Meanwhile, we're hearing more today from Vegas's finest one-eyed gossip that Simpson actually had an acquittal party planned for Friday. "He was predicting a hung jury," said a local radio talk-show host, one of whose guests Friday — a "Simpson associate" — invited him to join the Juice and his gang at an undisclosed location after the acquittal. Alas. And new Facebook makes it so hard to retract those big event blasts to your friends, too. Here's hoping it was a good time; going-away parties are often some of our favorites. And early December is wide open! Let us know if we can bring anything.