Former NFL Player, OJ Simpson Granted Parole After 9 Years In Prison

A parole board in Nevada has granted
parole to former NFL player O.J.
Simpson, who has served more than
eight years for armed robbery and
assault with a weapon.
Simpson, 70, was convicted in 2008
after enlisting a group of men, including
two with guns, to retrieve some items
from two sports collectibles sellers that
Simpson said were stolen from him a
decade earlier. He has now reached the
nine-year minimum of the 33-year
sentence he received.
Simpson appeared in front of the board
via a live video feed from a prison in
Nevada.

In his plea for release, Simpson told the
board that he’s taken an “alternative to
violence” course and that he is the
commissioner of a softball league in
prison.
The board he appeared in front of is the
same one that granted parole on 12 of
his charges in 2013.
Simpson was at the centre of the “trial
of the century” in 1995, when he was
acquitted for the murder of his ex-wife,
Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend
Ronald Goldman.