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| O.J. Simpson Parole Hearing: What to Watch For | O.J. Simpson Parole Hearing: What to Watch For |
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| O. J. Simpson will go before a Nevada parole board on Thursday to appeal for his freedom after almost nine years in a state prison. A decision is expected by day’s end. This article will be updated through the day. | O. J. Simpson will go before a Nevada parole board on Thursday to appeal for his freedom after almost nine years in a state prison. A decision is expected by day’s end. This article will be updated through the day. |
| • Mr. Simpson, 70, was convicted in 2008 of several felonies, including kidnapping and robbery at a Las Vegas hotel the year before. He was sentenced to nine to 33 years in prison. | |
| • This is Mr. Simpson’s first chance to gain release from prison, because he is approaching the low end of his sentencing range. | • This is Mr. Simpson’s first chance to gain release from prison, because he is approaching the low end of his sentencing range. |
| • Four members of the state’s seven-person Board of Parole Commissioners will meet in Carson City, Nev., at 10 a.m. Pacific time. Mr. Simpson will participate by video link from the Lovelock Correctional Center, a medium-security prison about 100 miles to the northeast. A live stream will be available here. | • Four members of the state’s seven-person Board of Parole Commissioners will meet in Carson City, Nev., at 10 a.m. Pacific time. Mr. Simpson will participate by video link from the Lovelock Correctional Center, a medium-security prison about 100 miles to the northeast. A live stream will be available here. |
| Mr. Simpson’s felony convictions came 13 years to the day after a Los Angeles jury found him not guilty of murdering his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman, following one of the longest and most-watched criminal cases in history. | Mr. Simpson’s felony convictions came 13 years to the day after a Los Angeles jury found him not guilty of murdering his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman, following one of the longest and most-watched criminal cases in history. |
| In 1997, in a civil trial, another jury found that Mr. Simpson was responsible for their deaths, and awarded their families $33.5 million in damages; he has paid a tiny fraction of that amount. | |
| What makes Mr. Simpson’s case unique, of course, is that people watching it have a different case in mind, the 1994 double murder. | |
| It did not help matters that the 2007 robbery occurred on the same day as the release of “If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer,” a book based on interviews Mr. Simpson gave, describing — in theory, hypothetically — how he could have carried out the murders. | |
| One of his lawyers, Yale Galanter, has said that the charges filed against Mr. Simpson were excessive, and has suggested that the prosecutors and jurors were influenced by the earlier case. Though jurors were prohibited from considering any outside factors, “my biggest concern was whether or not the jury would be able to separate their very strong feelings about Mr. Simpson and judge him fairly and honestly,” Mr. Galanter said after the 2008 conviction. | |
| The Clark County district attorney at the time, David J. Roger, and members of the jury have insisted that their actions were no more than a reflection of the crimes Mr. Simpson committed in that Las Vegas hotel. | |
| If Mr. Simpson is released, the board could require him to go to a halfway house, or impose other terms on him. If he violates those terms, he could return to prison and serve up to the full 33-year sentence, minus time credited for good conduct. | If Mr. Simpson is released, the board could require him to go to a halfway house, or impose other terms on him. If he violates those terms, he could return to prison and serve up to the full 33-year sentence, minus time credited for good conduct. |
| If the board denies Mr. Simpson parole, it will decide how long he must wait until his next hearing, but it cannot be more than five years. An inmate of Mr. Simpson’s age, and with his status as a model prisoner, would typically win release. | If the board denies Mr. Simpson parole, it will decide how long he must wait until his next hearing, but it cannot be more than five years. An inmate of Mr. Simpson’s age, and with his status as a model prisoner, would typically win release. |
| The four-member panel must be unanimous to make a decision. If they are divided, the other commissioners are polled, and then a simple majority can rule. | The four-member panel must be unanimous to make a decision. If they are divided, the other commissioners are polled, and then a simple majority can rule. |
| After years of slowly fading into obscurity, Mr. Simpson was shoved back into the spotlight last year by two high-profile television projects. ESPN’s “O. J.: Made in America,” a multipart, nearly eight-hour documentary that won an Academy Award, spanned his life story: poor child in San Francisco, sports star in college and the N.F.L., charming pitchman and actor, abusive husband, California defendant and, finally, Nevada convict. | After years of slowly fading into obscurity, Mr. Simpson was shoved back into the spotlight last year by two high-profile television projects. ESPN’s “O. J.: Made in America,” a multipart, nearly eight-hour documentary that won an Academy Award, spanned his life story: poor child in San Francisco, sports star in college and the N.F.L., charming pitchman and actor, abusive husband, California defendant and, finally, Nevada convict. |
| FX’s “The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story,” a mini-series dramatizing the murder investigation and trial, won several Emmy Awards. | FX’s “The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story,” a mini-series dramatizing the murder investigation and trial, won several Emmy Awards. |