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Athletes Behaving Badly   05/14/2013 OJ To Take The Stand; 3 Major Questions To Be Drawn From His Testimony OJ Simpson will take the witness stand this week to testify that Yale Galanter, the Florida lawyer who received nearly $700,000 in legal fees, is to blame for his Nevada armed robbery and kidnapping convictions in 2008 and his failed appeal to the Nevada Supreme Court in 2010. His new defense attorneys argue that Simpson received ineffective assistance of counsel from his former defense attorney and that he should receive a new trial. The Clark County judge will be looking at three key issues regarding Galanter’s representation before making her decision whether to grant Simpson a new trial. The decision will be made by the judge alone, there is no jury involved. The three major questions the judge will want to answer are: 1)  Did Galanter convey any plea offers from the Clark County District Attorney’s Office to his client OJ Simpson? A criminal def