Charged with multiple felonies, including armed robbery and kidnapping, Simpson was convicted in October and sentenced to a minimum of nine years and a maximum of 33 years in prison. He spent just short of the minimum at Lovelock Correctional Center in Las Vegas and was released on parole on October 1, Simpson did during his nine-year stay in Vegas. If Simpson waited until the age of 65 to start collecting his pension, which would make the most sense as doing it then as opposed to doing it at 55 pays more than 2.
SI Recommends. By AP News. By Michael Shapiro. By Nick Selbe. College Basketball. By Madeline Coleman. A second bloody glove was then found on the premises which was later linked to the first found at the murder scene, with blood from both victims. The resulting police car chase was nationally televised and watched by around 95 million Americans making it the highest rated basic cable event of the year. Following the low-speed chase, Simpson had a brief stand-off with police in which he held a gun to his head before giving himself up.
When asked how he would plead to the two murder charges, OJ broke courtroom practice and said: "Absolutely, one hundred per cent, not guilty. Throughout the trial, he was supported by his friend and lawyer Robert Kardashian, the father of Kim , Khloe and Kourtney Kardashian. In post-trial interviews with the jurors, a few said they believed he did commit the murders but the prosecution had failed to prove their case.
In September , Simpson was arrested in Las Vegas, Nevada, and charged with numerous felonies, including armed robbery and kidnapping after a group of men led by him entered a room at the Palace Station hotel-casino and took sports memorabilia at gunpoint.
In , he was convicted and sentenced to 33 years imprisonment, with a minimum of nine years without parole. Simpson was acquitted of the brutal murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and waiter Ron Goldman. From the televised criminal trial that captivated the nation to the kidnapping and armed robbery charges that sent him to prison, here is a look back at key moments in Simpson's life. In the s, Simpson became a college football star as a running back for the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
In , he won college football's top award, the Heisman Trophy. Simpson left football behind for Hollywood, starring in popular Hertz commercials in the s as well as movies, including "Capricorn One" in the s and "The Naked Gun" films in the '80s and '90s.
Simpson, who had children with ex-wife Marguerite Whitley, married Nicole Brown in They had two children, Sydney and Justin. In , Simpson and Nicole Brown Simpson divorced. Ron Goldman, a waiter at that restaurant, went to Brown Simpson's home that night to return glasses her mother had left behind.
Simpson was in Los Angeles the evening of June 12 but took a late flight that night to Chicago. When he returned to Los Angeles the next day, he was interviewed by police, but not immediately arrested. On June 17, , prosecutors ordered Simpson to surrender, but instead he fled in a white Ford Bronco with his friend Al Cowlings, leading police on a slow-speed chase that brought Southern California freeways to a standstill and drew in a network television audience of 95 million Americans.
News helicopters hovered overhead, documenting the chase, and Angelinos gathered on the roadways, and in front of their televisions, to watch in real time.
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