INTERNATIONAL NEWS - Former US football star and actor OJ Simpson has been granted parole after nine years in a Nevada prison.
"Thank you!" said the 70-year-old, bowing his head as the board approved him for release in October.
Simpson is serving time for armed robbery, assault with a deadly weapon and 10 other charges over a 2007 confrontation at a Las Vegas hotel.
He was acquitted in 1995 of the murders a year earlier of ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman.
The former Hall of Fame running back was found guilty in 2008 of the botched Las Vegas robbery - exactly 13 years to the day after he was sensationally cleared in the so-called trial of the century.
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Posted on: 07:35 Fri, 21 July 2017
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