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On December 5, 2008, Simpson was sentenced to 33 years in prison with eligibility for parole in nine years (in October 2017). On July 20, 2017, Simpson was granted parole, [ 6 ] and was freed three months later. [ 7 ]
The People of the State of California v. Orenthal James Simpson was a criminal trial in Los Angeles County Superior Court, in which former NFL player and actor O. J. Simpson was tried and acquitted for the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman, who were stabbed to death outside Brown's condominium in Los Angeles on June 12, 1994.
This is a list of longest prison sentences ever given to a single person, worldwide. Listed are instances where people have been sentenced to jail terms in excess of a human lifetime, but effectively the same purpose. Note that many national legislations worldwide do not allow for such sentences.
One of the most high profile adaptations of the trial was FX’s cable TV miniseries The People v OJ Simpson: American Crime Story, which was also released in 2016. Simpson’s trial was the focus ...
Simpson later served nine years in a Nevada prison after being convicted in 2008 on 12 counts of armed robbery and kidnapping two sports memorabilia dealers at gunpoint in a Las Vegas hotel.
Simpson was sentenced to a minimum of nine years and maximum of 33. Key facts about O.J. Simpson: If the Pro Football Hall of Famer is granted parole, he could be released from prison on Oct. 1.
CTE is common in football players, and Omalu said Simpson had suffered thousands of cases of blunt force trauma in his brain during his career, which would have caused it. Simpson's lawyer, as a part of a legal strategy following Simpson's convictions for robbery in 2008, claimed that he had suffered concussions. [209]
On October 3rd in 1994, OJ Simpson was acquitted of double murder charges. The former Heisman Winner and Buffalo Bills player was accused of the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.