if he had not been o.j. simpson he never would have been prosecuted. you don t think the burglary charges were strong enough. i thought it was a ridiculous case. i thought it was basically a bunch of jerks yelling at each other in a hotel room. if he hadn t remember, the reason he was sentenced to so long to 33 years saying that you knew that the other people in the hotel room had guns. the people with guns got far less sentences than he did, so what does that tell you? revenge. it was a payback, yes. what do we know about how this can go and what the factors are? you know, parole hearings are much more informal than court proceedings. you don t have to have due process. you don t have to the same kind of strict requirements so the parole officers, the board has a lot of discretion and they can, you know, consider factors or not consider factors as as
catherine, nevada s interstate compact commissioner and an employee of the parole and probation division and the warden. the captain and the warden are available to answer questions really to relative to their operational jurisdiction. before i read my statement and answer questions, i would like to take the time to thank the nevada capital police, the carson city sheriff s office with their help with security and crowd control today. i d also like to take the time today to thank the nevada system of higher education and the video conference support for this hearing. lastly, i want though thank and recognize the administrative staff of the nevada parole board who have done a tremendous job of working together to facilitate our activities related to the public and media interests in this case. at 11:55 a.m. this morning, the nevada board of parole officers granted to grant parole to mr. orenthal simpson, effective
case, this is a case that i think the prosecution offered two and a half years and he countered with one year, and on its best day, this case is a one-year case anywhere else. so, i don t i mean, he obviously got there s a karmic factor here but it does not surprise me because in cases where you have defendants who are there doing parole hearings, this is exactly what you see time and time again. they want to relitigate the case as opposed to accepting remorse and embracing it, so to speak, and moving on. but from the parole officers or the parole people s, the commission s standpoint, based on the low risk assessment, this is pretty much a no brainer. yeah. so you say slam dunk. so they re deliberating but jeffery to been, ba jeffrey toobin, and i jotted down your point, i ve lived a conflict-free life, and i think
this parole. what they ve said to simpson he has to have regular check ins with his parole officers. he can t leave the state without getting permission before hand. he cannot have any contact with a felon, he can t use alcohol in excess and he has to abide by all state laws and he has been to be a contributing member of society. i think this board was under a national spotlight so they made very clear that they were going to be diligent and careful. most of the hearings take 20 minutes, this took an hour and five minutes. before they announced the decision the first commissioner said to o.j. simpson, he said you deserve to go to prison for this. you were the mastermind behind this robbery. and though we are releasing you and though we have found that you have a limited number of disciplinary actions while you have been in prison, we do think that this is a just sentence. so here s what o.j. had to say about why he should be released. i have done my time. you know? i have done it as
jegly our prosecuting attorney. he has assigned a special deputy to be specially deputized with the u.s. attorney s office so that we can get those cases to the federal level where the sanctions are much more serious and they can be kept in jail longer. this is the kind of long-term type of activities going to be that are going to be yielding results. we ve got to take the repeat gun offenders off the streets. which means we re going to have to have increased supervision and monitoring by the probation and parole officers. let me emphasize that we believes in a small group of repeat offenders that are bent on violent criminal. we have a violent crime apprehension team of 25 officers that are working all of the hot spots we receive reports from. it is very important that the community let us no he when he they hear shots so we can be there and make sure we investigate appropriately what is happening at the time. i want you to know that the atf and the alcohol, tobacco and the