LAS VEGAS — Two key witnesses in the O.J. Simpson armed-robbery trial contradicted each other Monday, one saying Simpson probably did not see guns during the confrontation and the other saying he heard someone, possibly Simpson, say: “Put the gun away.”
Charles Ehrlich, the last co-defendant to strike a plea deal, said that after the hotel room encounter, “I said, ‘O.J., these guys had guns.’ He said, ‘There were no guns.’ ”
Ehrlich took the witness stand after Thomas Riccio, the middleman who arranged the meeting to reclaim Simpson memorabilia from two dealers. Riccio said Simpson at one point was speaking to him and looking at him while another man in the cramped hotel room was “waving” a handgun.
“Someone said, ‘Put the gun away,’ ” he testified.
“Who said it?” asked prosecutor David Roger.
“I believe it was Mr. Simpson,” he said.
