Time to Free OJ?

[calamity]

OJ comes up for parole this summer. Keep him locked up or set him free?

If he was anyone but OJ, he'd be released. No one was hurt; he had no serious prior convictions; he didn't actually have the gun, and when you get right down to it, he was just stealing back his own stuff. I say cut the Juice loose. After all, he has to resume his pursuit of the real killers. The trail is getting cold.


O.J. Simpson: Will his prison sentence end this summer? | SI.com

O.J. Simpson turns 70 in July. Incarcerated since 2008, he is due to go before the Nevada parole board as early as this summer. Depending on the board's recommendation, 2017 might well be the year that perhaps the most famous inmate in America—the subject of an award-winning documentary and an award-winning scripted show two decades after his Trial of the Century—returns to society.

It would probably suck to sit on that parole board, But at least in Nevada, keeping him in jail should be a lot less risky. Apparently prisons aren't all that bad there either. It sure beats doing a stint at Folsom or San Quentin.

 

[MaggieD]

OJ comes up for parole this summer. Keep him locked up or set him free?

If he was anyone but OJ, he'd be released. No one was hurt; he had no serious prior convictions; he didn't actually have the gun, and when you get right down to it, he was just stealing back his own stuff. I say cut the Juice loose. After all, he has to resume his pursuit of the real killers. The trail is getting cold.


O.J. Simpson: Will his prison sentence end this summer? | SI.com




It would probably suck to sit on that parole board, But at least in Nevada, keeping him in jail should be a lot less risky. Apparently prisons aren't all that bad there either. It sure beats doing a stint at Folsom or San Quentin.

I doubt he'll be released his first time up for parole.

I'm neutral on it personally. Glad it's someone else's decision. Gives me a headache just thinking about it.

 

[Henrin]

He should have never gotten the sentence he did for the crime he was convicted of. Yes, it's well past time to let him out.

 

[calamity]

I doubt he'll be released his first time up for parole.

I'm neutral on it personally. Glad it's someone else's decision. Gives me a headache just thinking about it.

The article said he already has been granted parole on several of the lesser charges. So, first time up appears to not matter much. We'll have to see though.