OJ Simpson to face parole hearing Thursday

OJ Simpson will face a Nevada parole board on Thursday in hopes of winning his release after serving part of a 33-year sentence for a 2007 confrontation in a Las Vegas hotel room.

LOVELOCK, Nev. (KABC) -- OJ Simpson will face a Nevada parole board on Thursday in hopes of winning his release after serving part of a 33-year sentence for a 2007 confrontation in a Las Vegas hotel room.

Simpson himself, along with his family members and the victim of the Las Vegas armed robbery are expected to testify at the hearing.
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PHOTOS: O.J. Simpson through the years

USC's O.J. Simpson (32) is pictured in action against Northwestern at Evanston, Ill., Sept. 28, 1968.none

Buffalo Bills running back O.J. Simpson (32), strides over teammates as he latches on to Joe DeLamielleurs during a football game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Buffalo, N.Y.none

O.J. Simpson, with a NFL season rushing record of 2003 yards in his possession, relaxes in 1973 in his West Los Angeles mountaintop home with his wife and kids.none

Football greats Joe Namath, and O. J. Simpson, stand in front of the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Ohio, a day before their official induction into the sports shrine in 1985.none

O.J. Simpson with actresses Gilda Radner, left, and Jane Curtin as he appeared on NBC's Saturday Night Live in 1978. After his retirement from football, Simpson began acting.none

O.J. Simpson stands with his wife Nicole Brown Simpson while broadcasting on the sidelines during the Thanksgiving Day NFL football game in 1993.none

O.J. Simpson with his wife Nicole Brown Simpson and their children Sydney and Justin.none

This photo shows O.J. Simpson's ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ron Goldman, both of whom were murdered and found dead in Los Angeles on June 12, 1994.none

Al Cowlings and O.J. Simpson led authorities on a chase in his white Ford Bronco after Simpson was charged with two counts of murder in the deaths of his ex-wife and her friend.none

Simpson holds up his hands before the jury after putting on a new pair of gloves similar to the infamous bloody gloves during his double-murder trial in Los Angeles.none

The cast of the show "The People v. O.J. Simpson" which chronicles the murder trial of Nicole Simpson Brown and Ron Goldman.none

O.J. Simpson appears during his sentencing hearing at the Clark County Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas in 2008.none

Simpson is incarcerated in Lovelock Correctional Center and the hearing will be held via teleconference with four parole board members in Carson City, about 100 miles away.

If granted parole, he would be released in October.

In September 2007 Simpson and a group of men, two of them armed, burst into a hotel room at the Palace Station in Vegas in a bid to retrieve sports memorabilia items he believed had been stolen from him.

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He was convicted the next year of armed robbery and assault with a weapon.
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Then in 2013 state commissioners granted him parole on some of the dozen charges, meaning he had another four years to serve before reaching his minimum term.

Simpson is generally believed to have behaved well while in prison and legal experts say normally a prisoner in his situation would likely be granted release.

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But his notoriety connected to his 1990s murder trial may affect the decision-making process.

"Under normal circumstances, he's out in October," said Loyola Law Professor Stan Goldman. "But there's never been anything normal about anything involving the law and OJ Simpson."

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OJ Simpson to face Nevada parole hearing Thursday