Former NFL star and actor O.J. Simpson is officially a free man after he was granted good behavior credits and discharged from parole effective Dec. 1.
The decision comes a day after a hearing before the Nevada Board of Parole, Nevada State Police spokeswoman Kim Yoko Smith said on Tuesday. The 74-year-old acquitted California murder defendant and convicted Las Vegas armed robber declined an interview following the decision, his attorney said.
“Mr. Simpson is a completely free man now,” Malcolm LaVergne, Simpson’s lawyer in Las Vegas, said.
LaVergne declined to discuss Simpson's future plans, including whether he plans to stay in Nevada. He has been staying in a gated community in Las Vegas, but had told parole officials before his release from prison on Oct. 1, 2017, that he planned to move to Florida.
In October 2008, Simpson was convicted by a jury in Las Vegas and served nine years in prison for leading five men, including two with guns, in a September 2007 confrontation with two sports collectibles dealers at a Las Vegas casino hotel.
He claimed that he only wanted to retrieve personal mementoes and items stolen from him following his acquittal in Los Angeles in the 1994 murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.
Simpson had been scheduled for discharge from parole on Feb. 9, 2022, but the parole board granted him nearly three months of good time credits.
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