With Parole, A New Round Of O.J. Obsession Begins
The athlete, celebrity and murder suspect was the focus of an intensely covered trial, and two recent TV series that set him at the center of America's diciest topics: race, wealth, justice and fame.
What to feel, now that we know O.J. Simpson soon will be a free man?
That was the question, as cameras focused on a gray-haired, still-charming Orenthal James Simpson, near tears as he thanked members of a Nevada parole board Thursday afternoon. The board told him he could leave Lovelock Correctional Center as soon as this fall after serving nine years.
Simpson was convicted of breaking into a Las Vegas hotel room in 2007. Inside were a couple of sports memorabilia dealers who O.J. said had items belonging
