OJ Simpson, the professional football player-turned-film-star whose double murder trial that gripped and divided the United States, is a free man after finishing his parole, police said Tuesday.
Simpson, now 74, was released from prison in Nevada in 2017 where he served a nine-year sentence for armed robbery in a case revolving around sports memorabilia. He was due to end his parole in February.
“The Nevada Board of Parole Commissioners held an early release hearing for Mr. Simpson,” said Nevada Police spokesman Kim Yoko Smith.
“The decision to grant early release from parole was confirmed on December 6, 2021. The Board granted credit in an amount equal to the time remaining on sentence to reduce the sentence.”
Simpson’s soap opera public life began as a stand-out in college football, winning the coveted Heisman Trophy for best player in the nation before an illustrious career in the NFL.
It turned out to be a lucrative success in films and commercials.
Then in 1994, millions of Americans watched TV coverage while traveling in a white Bronco driven by a friend of Simpson’s, leading a police convoy along the highways of Southern California as he fled the suspected double murder of his ex-wife. and his male friend.
Simpson was acquitted by a Los Angeles jury in 1995 in a case dismissed by many as a media circus, known as the “Trial of the Century”, in which larger-than-life lawyers and Whether with the actors of the play or not, the gloves found on the scene will fit him.
The decision was greeted with disbelief by many Americans, with opinion increasingly divided on racial lines over the guilt of the black athlete.
The case turned to the Emmy-winning FX television series, “The People vs. OJ Simpson: American Crime Story,” which aired in 2016.
Simpson was found liable for death in a 1997 civil trial and ordered to pay $33.5 million in damages to the family of Ron Goldman—who had been stabbed to death along with Simpson’s ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson.
Simpson maintained his innocence and always denied that he was trying to escape during the famous chase, even though he ignored police deadlines to turn himself in.
He told an LAPD detective over the phone during a slow chase to “tell them all I wasn’t running,” but rather visited Nicole’s grave.
A duffel bag containing Simpson’s passport and cash – as well as a gun – was found by police in the car, questioned by many, but was never presented as evidence by prosecutors.
He later wrote a book called “If I Did It”, which gave a fictionalized account of the murders.
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