as o.j. simpson turned 60 in 2007, he s been struggling for a decade under the weight of the goldman family s $33.5 million civil judgment against him. back then simpson makes a decision that would have far reaching consequences. when he was losing the rockingham estate he began to move a lot of his personal items out of the estate. he had been hiding it from the goldmans. that s what he was doing. he was hiding some of his assets, stuff that he just didn t want sold. so he put these all in a storage locker and somebody took them. ten years later memorabilia dealer tom riccio who occasionally does business with simpson hears through the grapevine that someone is trying to sell simpson s stolen items. i call mr. simpson. first i told him about the footballs and pictures of your mom. he s like really? simpson wants these items back but he chooses not to go the conventional route. why didn t o.j. go to the police? well, o.j. claims he had asked
o.j. simpson as righting the wrongs that have been done to them for decades in los angeles and hundreds of years in this country. they felt justice finally came their way. it was almost as if they didn t care whether o.j. was guilty or not. the strident o.j. simpson we saw in 1994 did not, could not and would not commit this crime. is now a much older man. but has nine years behind bars made him any more contrite? it was my property. i wasn t there to steal from anybody. coming up there are a million things he could have done. is it you? i trusted you, man! and instead he just gets in a whole bunch of trouble. but why? you haven t noticed me in two years. i was in a coma. well, i still deserve appreciation. who was there for you when you had amnesia? you know i can t remember that. stop this madness. if it s appreciation you want you should both get snapshot from progressive. it rewards good drivers with big discounts on car insurance.
time in prison on this case. considering all of these factors, my vote is to grant your parole effective when eligible. and i concur with commissioner courta and grant parole. i concur with commissioner courta and agree to grant parole. i do vote to grant parole. and that will conclude this hearing. thank you. thank you. the nevada parole board heard his plea and granted him parole on his 2008 robbery conviction. once out of camera range a relieved o.j. greets arnell and sister shirley with the words i m coming home. i m coming home. they spend the next four hours making plans about his future as a freeman. which for o.j. are simpson could start as soon as october 1st.
ride. but to a great number of americans simpson remains a fallen hero who got away with a double murder. simpson deserves like no other person deserves to be in jail. ronald goldman lies deceased as well as nicole brown simpson. he will bear the burden of that for the rest of his life. there is this ogtle o obsession with o.j. he s a shakespeare character. we want to unravel that, unpeel that onion. there will always be that fascination with the evolution from young o.j. to now. s life sry is the american dream and the american nightmare. you had someone who reached the top of his career who had this enormous gift and celebrated by the american public only to stupidly lose it all.
and i realize now it was stupid of me. i am sorry. i didn t mean to steal anything from anybody. and i didn t know i was doing anything illegal. i thought i was confronting friends. and retrieving my property. most legal analysts say to this day that this was a two year crime, maybe three. during the trial he could have negotiated that case. there was an offer made that would have given himrobably less time than what he s already spent. and no deal. i think the idea was i m o.j. simpson and i m not going to get convicted. instead, o.j. simpson receives a sentence of nine to 33 years in prison. everybody else got off. he s the only one that wound up going to jail. i argue it was designed to echo the $33 million verdict that was rendered against him in the santa monica jury trial.