OJ Simpson once thrilled crowds as he ran for touchdowns and hurdled airport seats in car rental ads to achieve Hollywood celebrity before he was acquitted of murder in the 1995 "trial of the century'' in Los Angeles.
Now, an aging Simpson will appear as an inmate in a starkly plain hearing room in a remote US prison tomorrow to plead for his freedom. He's spent more than eight years behind bars in Nevada for armed robbery and assault with a weapon after trying to take back sports memorabilia in a budget hotel room in Las Vegas.
70-year-old Simpson will ask four parole board members who sided with him once before to release him in October, a likely possibility with his clean prison record.
OJ Simpson was turned down for parole in 2013.
It will be a stunning scene for a charismatic star once known as "The Juice'' who won the Heisman Trophy as the best US college football player in 1968 and was enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1985.
Source: AP
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