OJ Simpson is free again, after being released on parole two months early
His parade was scheduled to end on February 9.
On November 30, the Nevada Parole Board held an “early discharge hearing” against Simpson, after receiving a written recommendation from the Nevada Department of Parole and Probation, the bulletin said. .
A statement from the State Police Parole and Parole Board, Parole and Probation Division, said “the decision to grant early parole was approved on December 6.”
During the 2007 robbery, he was part of a group that raided a hotel and casino to steal sports memorabilia with a gun. Simpson, who starred for the Buffalo Bills in the 1970s and is the 21st top racer in NFL history, said the items belonged to him.
Simpson has spent his life in the limelight, first for his athletic prowess in college and the NFL, then as an actor and pitcher, then as a murder suspect. in the 1994 murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ron the Golden Man.
His murder trial in Los Angeles has been dubbed the “trial of the century” and sparked years of debate about race and the justice system.
Simpson pleaded “100% not guilty” and assembled a team of prominent national and local attorneys. He was finally acquitted in 1995, but two years later he lost a civil trial. He was ordered to pay $33.5 million in punitive damages.
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