OJ Simpson Granted Parole after 9 Years in Prison for Armed Robbery

Ololade Adeyanju with Agency Reports/

Orenthal James Simpson (OJ Simpson) was granted parole, on Thursday afternoon, after nine years in prison.
The former football star will now be released from prison this October, after four members of the Nevada Parole Board voted unanimously for his release.
Simpson was joined at Lovelock Correctional Facility by his lawyer, Malcolm LaVergne, for the hearing.
LaVergne arrived alongside Simpson’s close friend, Tom Scotto, his sister, Shirley Baker, and his daughter, Arnelle.
He was grinning from ear-to-ear after the board announced their decision, before making his way back into the prison, where he will be incarcerated for at least two more months.
Simpson, 70, also took some time to thank the board before returning to prison.
Simpson was attending the wedding of his good friend Scotto back in 2007, when he made the ill-fated decision to rob a memorabilia dealer at gunpoint with a group of friends inside the man’s hotel room.
He was sentenced to 33 years behind bars after a jury found him guilty of all ten counts with which he was charged on October 3, 2008 – exactly 13 years to the day that the former football star was acquitted of the murders of ex-wife Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman.