Las Vegas ? O.J. Simpson’s attorney sought to show Friday that the former football great confronted two memorabilia dealers with only one goal: to recover personal mementoes he believed were stolen.

Collectibles broker Tom Riccio testified under cross-examination that Simpson appeared to ignore other items such as lithographs of football great Joe Montana and items autographed by baseball stars Pete Rose and Duke Snider.

“I don’t think he had any interest in any of that,” Riccio said.

“Mr. Simpson never said, ‘I want to steal some Pete Rose baseballs?'” Simpson attorney Yale Galanter asked.

“No sir,” Riccio replied, laughing.

Galanter also sought to show that Simpson made no effort to hide his plan in advance.

Riccio’s testimony came during the second day of an evidentiary hearing to determine if Simpson, Clarence “C.J.” Stewart and Charles Ehrlich should face armed robbery, kidnapping and other charges for the Sept. 13 hotel room encounter.

On Thursday, Riccio and memorabilia dealer Bruce Fromong testified that Simpson and several other men burst into a room at the Palace Station Hotel Casino on that day and carried off hundreds of items.

On Friday, Galanter portrayed the group’s entry into the room as nothing out of the ordinary. Riccio agreed – up to a point.

“I had a key. I let them in,” he said. But after the group was inside the room, the once-calm situation “went south,” Riccio said.

Riccio said one of the men with Simpson pulled a gun after Fromong began to object that the men were taking his Montana lithographs and his cell phone. Had they only taken the Simpson items, Riccio speculated, the dealers might not have gone to the police.

On Thursday, the judge listened as prosecutors played a recording Riccio had made of the confrontation. On it, Simpson and others are heard screaming at the memorabilia dealers and shouting profanities.

Also Thursday, Fromong testified that Simpson took all the memorabilia he had brought to the room, which included the Montana, Rose and Snider items as well as Simpson materials. Simpson also took his cell phone, Fromong said.

Simpson, 60, and Stewart and Ehrlich, both 53, each face 12 criminal charges. A conviction on the kidnapping count could result in a sentence of life in prison with the possibility of parole. An armed robbery conviction could mean mandatory prison time.