
O.J. Simpson O.J. Simpson appears at an evidentiary hearing in Clark County District Court in Las Vegas. On Friday, June 18, 2021, Simpson's lawyer says he'll keep fighting recent court orders in Nevada that the former football star owes least $60 million in judgments stemming from the 1994 killings of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend, Ron Goldman. (AP)
FARGO, N.D. (KFGO) – O.J. Simpson, the former football star and television personality has won an early release from parole on a Nevada robbery conviction. Simpson was convicted in 2008 of robbery and kidnapping in a dispute over his sports memorabilia at a Las Vegas casino-hotel. He served nine years in a Nevada prison and was released on parole in 2017.
Not long before his trial, Simpson created “buzz” nationwide while he was vacationing in the Fargo area. In an interview with KFGO News at a local cigar bar, Simpson let loose, suggesting that the armed robbery charge against him was politically motivated and that he was never involved in the attempt to steal sports memorabilia that had once been his.
Simpson, who was tried and acquitted in the 1994 murder of his wife and her friend, was in the Fargo area with his girlfriend at the time, who had relatives here.
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