It's time, time to put away the OJ case. There is a story circulating that has made CNN, OJ confessed to the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson. As the story goes according to the manager, OJ was drunk and high and confessed to killing his ex-wife.

Of course the manager, Mike Gilbert, has written a "tell all" book due out May 12.

Can we let this go? I know many believe he did it. I know lots of people, including the family of the victim are distraught and are looking for justice to be served. To them I am deeply sorry. Sorry that though the case ended more than a decade ago, it is still brought up every time someone who knew OJ decides to write a book or do an interview.

The system is flawed and sometimes the innocent are punished unjustly for crimes as we see in the cases, which are opened, and the supposed guilty are acquitted. The sad fact is that at times the criminals go unpunished. I understand that in both cases families are put through a hell.

Let's put personal pain aside for a minute. OJ may have gotten away with a horrible crime, at this point unless he confesses on his death bed, we will never know the truth as his search for the real killer has not turned up anything more than a lowered handicap on the various golf courses he has searched for the "real killer."

Just because someone decides to claim they heard him admit to it, we don't have to listen. The real truth will never be known and while Mr. Gilbert claims to know the truth, the only reason he is coming forth is to sell more books. This is not an attempt to right the wrong nor is it an overwhelming sense of guilt that brings him to tell all. It is an opportunity for a greedy man to make money on a book by coming forth to tell a supposed truth.

According to the reports this information came to him in June of 1994. Fourteen years is a long time to sit on new information to help bring a criminal to justice and if he had not found a publisher for his snake oil, I doubt he would believe the information enough to bring it to the attention of the authorities.

It is time to let this go. It is time to let OJ go away. There is no sense in continually bringing up the past because unless OJ brings it up there is nothing that will change the outcome.

If someone were to bring about new evidence or if an investigating officer was to bring out some piece of "lost" evidence there is no CSI happy ending. The only thing keeping OJ in the spotlight does is provide him with more notoriety.

Unfortunately, all we can do is debate his guilt or innocence in our own minds and to that end, it is where the debate belongs. The victim's family deserves to have this laid to rest though perhaps not peacefully, but having a drug-peddling manager come out with a new book that supposedly talks of a confession while he was under the influence is not helpful information. It opens old wounds and gives false promises.

It would never make a dent in the case. Its only purpose is to put money in a publisher and writer's pocket.