O.J. Simpson May Soon Be Paroled for ‘Good Behavior’


There’s a “good chance” O.J. Simpson will soon be a free man, according to reports out of Clark County, Nevada. If he does, it will be because of the murderer’s “good behavior.”

O.J. Simpson, the former football star, TV pitchman and now Nevada prison inmate No. 1027820, will have a lot going for him when he asks state parole board members this week to release him after serving more than eight years for an ill-fated bid to retrieve sports memorabilia.

Now 70, Simpson will have history in his favor and a clean record behind bars as he approaches the nine-year minimum of his 33-year sentence for armed robbery and assault with a weapon. Plus, the parole board sided with him once before.

No one at his Thursday hearing is expected to oppose releasing him in October — not his victim, not even the former prosecutor who persuaded a jury in Las Vegas to convict Simpson in 2008.

“Assuming that he’s behaved himself in prison, I don’t think it will be out of line for him to get parole,” said David Roger, the retired Clark County district attorney.

Many had hoped that Simpson would spend the rest of his life in prison for the slayings of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman — even if this sentence had nothing to do with that crime. Unforatuently, the justice system can’t take the murders into account, so he may soon be a free man.

Source: CBS Las Vegas



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