LAS VEGAS - Fallen football legend O.J. Simpson was Friday facing a stiff jail term of a minimum of six years as his sentencing hearing began after he was found guilty of armed robbery and kidnapping.

Looking nervous and dressed in a blue prison uniform, Simpson listened intently as his lawyer Yale Galanter asked judge Jackie Glass not imprison the former sports giant. But the judge rejected that request.

Simpson, 61, could face life imprisonment which is the maximum which can be imposed for kidnapping, after he was found guilty in October at the end of a three-week trial.

He was found guilty for his role in a 2007 raid in which he and a group of friends stormed a Las Vegas hotel and robbed two dealers of a trove of sports memorabilia.

Simpson’s conviction on October 3 came 13 years to the day after he was acquitted in his earlier 1995 trial of murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend, Ron Goldman.

The football star did not testify during his three-week trial. But he said in interviews after his arrest that he had gone to the hotel to recover personal items stolen from his former Los Angeles home, and was unaware the other men were armed.

Going through all the charges, Galanter asked the judge for all sentences to run concurrently and said the approriate sentences would be between six and 17 and a half years in jail.