The Nevada Supreme Court refused Friday to overturn O.J. Simpson's armed robbery and kidnapping convictions stemming from a gunpoint heist in a Las Vegas hotel room.

In its ruling, the court said it concluded each of Simpson's eight appeal arguments were without merit.

Simpson attorney Yale Galanter said the ruling was disappointing but not unexpected.
Galanter characterized his client's conviction as prejudicial "payback" for his 1994 double-murder acquittal involving the brutal 1994 murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ron Goldman in Los Angeles

Simpson, 63, is serving nine to 33 years at a state prison in Lovelock Correctional Center, 90 miles northeast of Reno. Stewart is serving 7 1/2 to 27 years.

Both men were convicted of kidnapping, armed robbery, conspiracy and other crimes for what Simpson maintained was an attempt to retrieve family photos and mementos.

The key issues in the former football star's appeal were the racial makeup of the jury and the conduct of Clark County District Court Judge Jackie Glass.

Simpson's lawyers argued that prosecutors improperly rejected two jurors because they were African American. But the court concluded that except for providing the race of the prospective jurors, Simpson's lawyers didn't offer any evidence of discrimination.

Prosecutors gave race-neutral reasons for dismissing the jurors, the court said.

The court also said it reviewed 34 instances in which Simpson's lawyers alleged misconduct by Glass, then concluded most of the allegations consisted of warnings by Glass for lawyers to stop talking and sit down.

Before the murders and his felony convictions Simpson was famous as a USC and NFL football star.