The courts have officially put an end to parole measures targeting former American football champion OJ Simpson, who hit the headlines in the 1990s before being convicted in 2008 for an armed robbery in Las Vegas.
He had burst in 2007 with five henchmen in a Las Vegas casino to
"recover"
, under the threat of weapons, sports memorabilia and had been sentenced to a sentence of between 9 and 33 years in prison.
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In July 2017, OJ Simpson was granted early release and had been sinking from a peaceful retirement in Nevada, regularly commenting on the American Football Championship on social media.
The fallen star, now 74 years old, however, remained subject to the measures that the criminal authorities had attached to his parole.
They were theoretically due to end on February 9, 2022, the Nevada Conditional Freedoms Commission said in a statement to AFP on Tuesday.
But OJ Simpson has formulated a request for an early lifting of these measures which was granted to him by the Commission from December 1, 2021, the press release said.
The septuagenarian is now completely free to move around.
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In 1994, OJ Simpson tried to escape the police during a chase broadcast live by all American television stations. He was believed to have stabbed to death his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and a man who happened to be with her, Ron Goldman. In 1995, after an incredible, over-publicized trial that deeply stirred racial tensions in the country, OJ Simpson was found not guilty by a popular jury. Innocent on the penal level, Orenthal James Simpson was however found two years later responsible on the civil level for the death of his ex-wife and Ron Goldman, with significant damages to the key.
The athlete has always protested his innocence.
He also denied having tried to escape his summons to the police station on the day of the famous pursuit, claiming to have just wanted to go to the grave of his ex-wife.
A bag containing his passport, cash and a .357 Magnum revolver was indeed discovered by investigators in his vehicle.
But these elements were never tendered as evidence in the file because the car did not belong to the suspect and the prosecution were not able to prove who had placed them there.