thank you, ma am. i will tell you as appointed members of the nevada board of parole commissioners, we have an ethical duty to consider each inmate for parole in a fair and consistent manner. like other parole board across the country, our responsibilities include needing to balance prisoner rehabilitation with public safety as well as taking action that considers the interest of justice. that s what we re doing here this morning. we have adopted a guideline to assist us in making consistent decisions. we apply the elements and factors of our guidelines to each inmate being considered for parole. a component of the guideline is our risk assessment. the board uses a scientifically developed value dated risk assessment as part of its parole guideline. the risk asaysment helps us determine which inmates are more or less likely to return to prison if we release tem on parole. using a risk assess suspect not unique too nevada. as a number of other state parole boards also use them.
with ex-felons, leaving the state without permission, being subject to search and seizure, so there s going to be a whole slew of conditions you re going to have to follow. and do you think you can be successful with the terms of parole? nine year and i haven t missed it. you know, most of my life i could be stopped and searched whenever they i m not a guy who lived a criminal life, you know. i m a pretty straight shooter. i ve always tried to be a good soldier. and i i have no problem, none whatsoever, in living with those conditions. all right. so here s the other side of that. as an easily recognized person in the community, if you re grant pad role, how will you handle public scrutiny in the community? well, i ve been recognized ever since i was 19 years old.
we have revalidated our assessment three separate times in the past 14 years and it has consistently shown to be predictive. using this risk assessment has significantly improved our overall performance. i m going to go over each of those items of the risk assessment with you at this time. and just as an aside, this risk assess suspect being revalidated even as we speak by by the jfa institute. so it s pretty darn predict stif the bottom line here. so my first question for you, mr. simpson, were you arrested for the first time at the age of 24 or older? i was arrested for arrested for the first time i think at the age of 46 or 47. okay. so you were over the age of 24. yes. yes, ma am. okay. am i correct that you have never been on parole or probation
before, therefore you have never had a parole or probation revocation? that is correct. okay. i have that you were unemployed at the time of this offense because you were in retirement status. that s correct. yes. okay. now, this is a property conviction. we re currently hearing you on the robberies and the enhancements. so you have been asaysed as a property offender. now, we ve also assessed you as having a substance abuse problem. i ll tell you why that is. you have indicated also in the past that alcohol had a big factor in this particular crime and the fact that you have spent the last almost nine years in prison because of an alcohol-related incident would be indicative of having some sort of at least temp rare substance abuse problem. so we have scored you with having some history there. we have you as male and we have
if we were able to do that, you would have never heard about this. none of us would be here today. okay. and lastly, i d like you toe to know that we receive hundreds of letters of support and opposition, and while we always encourage public input, the majority of the opposition letters are asking us to consider your 1995 acquittal and subsequent civil judgment, however, these items will not be considered in this case. thank you. thank you. thank you. all right, mr. simpson. when we fire hydrant oefrsd parole, one conditions is to pay court-ordered restitution to the victims of the crime. according to the judgment and conviction this-in this case, you and your co-defendants were ordered to pay $3,560 in restitution and return 12 montana lithographs to the victims. can you tell us the status of the restitution and the return of the property taken during the robbery? well, one, i was unaware of