OJ Simpson’s Parole Date Hearing Set for July 20

Former football star could be released on Oct. 1 after serving time for kidnapping, armed robbery and assault with a deadly weapon

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O.J. Simpson may be released from prison as soon as Oct. 1.

The former football player, who is currently serving a nine-to-33 year sentence, has been scheduled for a July 20 parole hearing, according to the Associated Press. He will appear via teleconference before a panel of four Carson City parole commissioners.

Simpson will be joined by his attorney Malcolm LaVergne at the Lovelock Correctional Center in the Nevada desert, where he is being held.

Simpson and an associate were convicted in 2008 of kidnapping, armed robbery and assault with a deadly weapon in a case related to a 2007 incident in a Las Vegas hotel room. Simpson claimed he was attempting to reclaim stolen personal items from memorabilia dealers.

“My crime was trying to retrieve for my family my own property,” Simpson said when he last went before the parole board in 2013. He was granted parole on some of his crimes after admitting he regretted the incident and said he had apologized to the dealers.

The former USC star running back was infamously acquitted of double murder in October 1995 after the “trial of the century” captured the nation’s attention. The stabbing deaths of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman on June 12, 1994, have officially remained unsolved.

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