be monitored no matter where he is, who he s talking to. he is always going to be somewhat followed from the perspective of, will he make some kind of stupid statement and get involved in something that could ultimately affect his destiny once again. bob massi, thanks. we re waiting for the parole board to come back and give us a decision. does o.j. be free or stay locked up? first jonathan hunt is at the prison there where o.j. is in lovelock, nevada. jon, your thoughts? reporter: shep, i thought it was very interesting the beginning of this hearing in particular. bob massi and pretty much every other legal expert we ve spoken to has said one of the most important things in these kind of hearings is apologies, contrition, taking responsibility. but as bob was just talking, when tony carter, one of the commissioners at this hearing, asked him what were you thinking
parts of the hearing seemed emotional for him. in the hearing room with him were his lawyer, malcolm laverne from las vegas, his sister, shirley baker from sacramento, his daughter, arnelle simpson, who lives in the fresno area, and his close friend tom we re interested in color here now. if he gives us anything of interest we ll take you there. in the mean time, bob massey, he s from outside the prison, outside the hearing room. bob, your take on what happened today and what happens going forward? welsh do you know what, shep? as i was listening to o.j., i had two thoughts. number one, i thought there was always a question, should he have testified down in las vegas in that trial? because he has a way of being affable and convincing. then as he rambled on i recognize all of the reasons he shouldn t have testified.
my speech writer, carolyn inman and myself, we created that book. we re not going to stop talking about it. i wish i had a little more time. but they re about to begin this hearing again. tanya brown, nicole brown simpson s sister, thank you for being here. they re about to begin this hearing. o.j. simpson and his attorney are back in the room, the parole board. let s listen. waited this long. few more minutes. they have to be unanimous, this group of four. if not they bring in a couple of others. they can go up to six. it will be one way or the other. the good money today has been it is in vegas, if you will. it is among legal experts. our folks who look at the scoring they do there in nevada. the consensus seems to be that
they believe o.j. will walk free beginning in october. this board will make the decision. let s listen in on o.j. i think i relaid that to her befor before. this is elderly form of writer. his predecessor. his predecessor. linda deutch. linda deutch, reporter for associated press who covered the criminal trial way back in the day downtown in los angeles. and then if i remember, all covered the civil trial which took place in santa monica a few years later. o.j. remembering those who covered his cases. talking to no one. jeffrey felix is a complete fraud. he wrote a book about me.
you ve had to come to some kind of understanding about this, the trail of evidence in this matter and how a jury found him not guilty but there are other ways to think about this. shep, pathologist, but i have worked for 40 years with the new york state correction system. and i ll tell you, shep, it s a bad system around the country, the criminal justice system, the incarceration, the incarceration rate, probation, parole. and i think this is a good teaching moment for all your viewers as to what goes on in a parole hearing. this is the first time i have seen a parole hearing in all these years. i have always been told they are much shorter than this. i think that the country has to come to grips with 6 million people incarceration want to go to this news conference where someone has been in the room with o.j. simpson and telling us what o.j. s demeanor is.