OJ Simpson has been granted parole after serving nine years of a 33 year sentence for kidnapping and armed robbery. He could be out of prison as early as this October.
OJ Simpson, 70, went before a Nevada Parole Board earlier today to appeal for his freedom after a conviction in 2008 on a charge of taking accomplices armed with guns to a Las Vegas hotel to take items from a sports memorabilia dealer.
He was acquitted of charges in the deaths of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman in 1994.
OJ Simpson was a former football hero who also had multiple movie roles before falling from fame after the death of his ex-wife in which he was charged for murder.
During the hearing he contested that the items which he took from the memorabilia dealer were his own property and he wasn’t aware that the men who was with were armed. He referred to the accomplices as “security guys.” Simpson said he was not armed himself and added, “I basically have spent a conflict-free life.”
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