O.J. Simpson is requesting a new trial, as he awaits his five-day hearing next week in Las Vegas.

The former football star will testify how his former lawyer gave him poor advice with regards to his 2007 run-in with two men in Las Vegas, and the following trial, according to Radar Online.

Simpson said the advice he was given by Yale Galanter led to his armed robbery and kidnapping conviction the following year.

He claims that the lawyer told Simpson before the confrontation that as long as he didn’t trespass or touch anyone, he wasn’t breaking the law, according to Radar Online. Galanter had also failed to tell Simpson that if he testified on his own- which he never did- it could help his case.

“Had I understood that there was an actual chance of conviction, I would have accepted such an offer,” said Simpson, based on the report.

The football great also said that Galanter also screwed up his appeal to the Nevada Supreme Court in 2010. Simpson is in Sin City on a 9 to 33-year sentence, and is not eligible for parole for another five years.

According to Chief deputy District Attorney H. Leon Simo, the evidence in the 2007 case was more than enough to make a conviction, and that Simpson shouldn’t get a new trial.

In 1995, Simpson was acquitted in the murder of ex-wife Nicole Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman, and wrote a book about the crime he claims didn’t commit in 2006, a year before his latest arrest.

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