Bronco. Oj on the run after the death of his exwife and her friend. His trial lasted nearly a year. Lead the jury in the above entitled action find the defendant not guilty of the crime of murder. Shepard for years, relative quiet until that night in vegas. O. J. Simpson said he tried to get back memorabilia from collectors. Cops called it a crime. I didnt know i was doing anything illegal. Shepard the judge sent to the juice to prison. Which leads us here. Alive look from the prison where o. J. Simpson will appear from a videoconference. He is serving a sentence of 933 years for his role in that Armed Robbery of two Sports Memorabilia agents in a Las Vegas Hotel room. The commissioners are speaking, lets listen. O. J. Simpsons defense argued that he was just trying to get back things that belonged to him but the jury did not buy it. He is scheduled to face the same four Board Members who in 2013 granted him parole on some of the charges in which the jury convicted him. We expect a ruling today, potentially within the next hour and there o. J. Simpson is now walking into the courtroom at the age of 70, smiling ear to ear. Here we go. Mr. Simpson, will you please give me your mdoc number for the record . O. J. 1027820. Mr. Simpson, the first thing i am going to do is put on the record your notice in this hearing and ask you if you will recognize your signature, pleas please. Having recognize your signature i will declare for the record that you have properly move forward. We are seeing you this morning on an aggregated case sentence and that is cases number c237890, c237890, assault with a Deadly Weapon. Use of a Deadly Weapon enhancement. Use of a Deadly Weapon enhancement. One of the things i want to make you aware of, those enhancements include both the kidnapping and the robbery charges even though they are not necessarily the way i said it. A caseworker, i have a parole eligibility date of october 1st 2017 with a current Expiration Date of september 29, 2,022, is that correct . At this point, is there anything that would change that parole eligibility date . That date is not going to change. Mr. Simpson you are getting the same hearing that everyone else gets. However, since we have a crowd of people here that have not taken advantage of our Public Meetings before in order to attend the hearing, some of the things im going to say will get lengthy. You will understand everything but it will be new for some folks, i want to understand that from the getgo. As 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 boards across the country, our responsibilities include balancing prisoner rehabilitation with Public Safety as well as taking action that considers the interest of justice. That is what we are doing here this morning. We have adopted guidelines in making consistent decisions, we have adopted elements in each inmate being considered for parole. Of the board a scientifically developed, validated Risk Assessment as part of its parole guideline. The Risk Assessment helps us determine which inmates are more or less likely to return to prison if we release them on parole. Using a Risk Assessment is not unique to nevada. As a number of other state parole boards also use them. We have reevaluated our assessments 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 am going to go over each of those items with you at this time. It just as an aside, this is being revalidated even as we speak. It is pretty darn predictive is the bottom line. My first question for you, mr. Simpson. Were you arrested for the first time at the age of 24 or older . O. J. i was arrested for the first time, i think i was 46 or 47. You were over the age of 24. O. J. yes, maam. Am i correct that you have never been on parole or probation before, therefore you have never had a parole or probation revocation . O. J. that is correct. I have that you are unemployed at the time of this offense because you are in retirement status. That is correct, yes. This is a property convictin conviction, you have been assessed as a property offender. We have also assessed you as having a Substance Abuse problem, i will tell you why that is. You have indicated in the past that alcohol had a big factor in this particular crime. Of the fact that you have spent the last almost nine years in prison because of an alcohol related be indicative of having some sort of at least temporary Substance Abuse problem. We have scored you with having some history there. We have that you are currently, you very recently turned 90 years old. Im sorry about that. O. J. i feel like it, though. How about we take three decades off and call you 70. We dont have you as having any gang affiliation nor has the ndoc found you to have any gang involvement. You completed the Vocational Training in the computer application course, we know that you do not have any disciplinarys current or pending and that you are currently medium level at the correctional center. Would you say those items are correct . O. J. yes, maam. Your risks for scores you at low risk, however because of your particular offense that severity is at the highest. When we combine your score along with your offense severity, our guideline is to consider factor factors. Whether or not you are a risk to reoffend and return to our criminal justice system. What we do at this point when we are looking at the risk score, we also look at what are called aggregating and mitigating factors. Those dont include everything in the world. They are very specific as to what we consider under those items. Under the ever aggravating and mitigating factors in your particular case, we have mitigating or positive things, the fact that you have been disciplinary free throughout your entire period of incarceration. You dont have any prior conviction history. You have community and family support. You have what appear to be stable release plans, you have participated in programming, some rather significant programming. On the aggregating factors, the only thing that fits under our aggregating characteristic in terms of risk in your situation is that at the time of this offense your victims indicated that they were in fear for their safety, having been threatened with a gun during the commission of a crime. Those are the risk aggregating and mitigating things we are considering. Right now, im going to stop talking for a while and asked the members of the panel if they might have any questions of you. Mr. Simpson, you have lived most of your life in the public spotlight. You go into a hotel room in las vegas, bring along four other men with you, two of them are armed. You rob the two victims of property. What were you thinking . O. J. this might be long, i will try to be brief. I have been contacted by a man, he contacted me over a period of time and told me there were some guys trying to get him to my property and i should come and get it. I kind of blew him off because im not interested in football property, i dont collect memorabilia only my own personal items. He was pretty persistent and calling me and finally i asked for pictures of what they had. He sent me some pictures. What i saw was my family, my mothers albums, pictures of my kids growing up. Certificates of accomplishments of mine, pictures of what i call significant famous people. The letters of myself. I told him i would really like to get this stuff. After a period of time through what he described in court as a perfect storm, we all ended up in las vegas. I was there for a wedding, he told me that the property was there. What i like to try to get the property and i said of course i would like to get the property. He told me the names of what he thought were the people in the room and i realize these were friends of mine. Actually guys who helped me move, helped me move and stored some of this stuff. On the day of this incident, he came to my hotel. To talk about how this would take place. I told him i met with my sister and my daughter and some other friends and discussed this, i pointed out another lawyer that was a part of this Wedding Party that was going on. They told me that i cant do this, if we are going to their home or their storage. O. J. , you cannot go in there because if they ask you to leave you have to leave. I said youve got to get it and bring it to a public place. All of this has been testified to, i am not just going. He called me and told me he would bring it to his room and have it brought to his hotel. And i said of course i will come and get it. He said its a lot of stuff, you better bring some friends. He also said you should bring security. I said i know these guys, i dont think i need security. It turns out one of the guys, bruce, i didnt know it was him. I said i didnt know security. Later that day when they arrived at his hotel with my property, he called and said they are here, if you come here i will meet you in the lobby. You need security, this guy beardsley, big guy. I think anybody who knows him knows hes a little different. I told him this guy is not dangerous but he said bring some security. During the day he was there and he met somebody from the wedding. One guy, mcclinton said he did security in las vegas and it would help his business if he had me as a client. After he insisted i said i could use his help. I went to the hotel, i met mr. Riccio in the lobby. The two guys, they also met us there which was a big mistake, obviously. I realized that quite soon after this. Mr. Riccio led us to his room, put the key in the door and let us in. Ive seen the media reporting we broke into the room but we didnt break into any room, riccio brought us in there. When i came into the room, i noticed spread out everywhere was my personal property. The only thing i saw that was on display that wasnt mine were some baseballs and i made it clear to everybody that those were not mine, all i want is my property. There is a tape, you hear me on at least three or four cases say i just want my property. Ill try to make it a little quicker. At some point we started leaving, when we were leaving the room i had been pushed out of the room by the security guys because while i was in there and i recognized bruce was there, i was surprised to see him, as he testified i was shocked to see him. Bruce has been a friend of mine, he has traveled to me and we have done a lot of business together over the years. I said man, what are you doing here . He explained to me why he was there and why he had my property and i told him he should have told me. I accepted i understood. It was 06, 07, people were losing their homes, a guy owed him money, couldnt give him money, gave him my property to sell. I told him he should have told me. He apologized and i accepted his apology, i apologize for these guys pointing a gun at him. Hes known me when ive had security, hes known me when the venue has hired security and there were times when he had to have security for me. He knows i would never direct anybody to point a gun at him, ive never done this in my life. You mentioned those gun charges, bruce and alfred made it clear during the trial that i had no weapon. They didnt feel threatened by me. I havent made any excuses in the nine years i have been here. In no way, shape, or form did i wish him any harm. As i was leaving the room, this is on the tape, too. Bruce said o. J. , hey man, theres a box with my stuff, those dont belong to you. Those are mine, man. He told me that because he recognized Everything Else i took out of that room was mine. He also recognized that i was not there to steal the stuff and he knew i would he didnt know at the time that the security walked out with a stolen blackberry. The minute i saw that, i made him send it back and he gave some cockamamie story in the trial of why he didnt take it back. In any event, i am no danger to pulling a gun on anybody. I never have in my life, ive never been accused of it in my life. Nobody has ever accuse me of pulling any weapon on them. Bruce knows i would never do that, i never have. I want to also as a postscript, when i got to lovelock, the state of california took up the issue of whose property it was. They did an investigation and they came to the conclusion that it was my property. They turned it over to me. I have it now. Its kind of mindboggling that they turned over to me property that i am in jail for, for trying to retrieve it. It was my property. I would never steal from anybody and i would never, ever pull a weapon on anybody. The property was yours . O. J. its been ruled illegally by the state of california that it was my property and they have given it to me. Thats why you went into the hotel room . Is that right . O. J. when riccio was calling me telling me this, i wasnt interested. It wasnt until he got actual pictures of what they supposedly had a because it was family photos and stuff, thats when i was interested in going there and i only went to retrieve my own property. What were you thinking when the guns were being brandished . O. J. i didnt see the guns. You say guns, as i understand it, one guy behind me somewhere pointed a gun at him. I never saw him brandished a gu gun. I left, i called back to the room to ask bruce, you said there were some pictures and i asked him if Walt Alexander returned his cell phone. He described who was pointing a gun at him. To be honest, i didnt really believe him at the time. The three guys i was with said they didnt see him do it. I got back to my hotel, we waited for the security guys to show up. Of the minute drove up, i asked Walter Alexander for the cell phone and he kind of through the cell phone to me. I wasnt aware until i was in the car driving back to our hotel that this guy had actually pointed a gun at me. Early in the day when he was talking to me, trying to get me to let him calm. He needed to show me i didnt know this guy. I knew the alexander guy but i didnt know this guy. He showed me his license. I should have vetted him. I didnt really need to, i knew these guys werent dangerous. Your version of the offense is different a little bit from the official records. Moving forward. Considering the fact that what we have on record, weapons were brandished, you were there, property was taken. O. J. i was there the question is, what do you think was the impact on your victims . O. J. i know what the impact was, we have talked about it. Mr. Beardsley, we had long talks back then. He told me that he had tried to call my lawyer, testified in court. He called my lawyers and tried to tell them in the months previous that guys had my property and they were trying to sell about my lawyers never called them back. He actually testified for me, i am sure you know, during the trial. Bruce and i talked, bruce was traumatized by it. We talked it out, he knew i wouldnt have never condoned what happened. He accepted my apology and i told him that these guys should be put in jail. I wasnt going to defend them. Unfortunately, they got a get out of jail free card. Nothing i can do about that. I want to point out, bruce, i knew his family. His mother was terminally ill, she was a fan, i would call her and sing to her. The night before or the night of the jurys verdict, his son actually called. He tried to give me a head up on something to do with memorabili memorabilia. He said that he and his mother were cheering for me. Of this family knows i didnt wish any harm on these guys. These guys were friends of mine and id like to think we were friends again. Thank you. Good morning, mr. Simpson. I conducted your last hearing in 2013. Do you recall that hearing . O. J. yes i do. At the time, we asked you what your plan would be if we were to grant you to your sentence and you said you were going to do a complete commitment to change. Have you done that . O. J. i took two courses, i guess you guys dont give much credit to, called alternative to violence. I think its the most important of course anybody in this prison can take, it teaches you how to deal with conflict through conversation. Ive been asked many, many times to mediate conflict between individuals and groups. It gave me so many tools on how to use it, to try to walk these guys through, not pulling punches. Also at one point, a couple of guys came to me and said o. J. , i understand you are a baptist. We are baptist and we have no baptist service here, can you help us get a baptist service here . We now have an ongoing baptist service that was well attended, i attended religiously. I realized in my nine years here, i was good at guy. I could have been a better christian and my commitment to change would be to be a better christian. Thank you. We do know you have completed alternative to violence, both basic and advanced and computer applications. I would like you to tell us a little bit more to the alternative to violence and how it will benefit you in the future. O. J. the alternative to violence course, i always thought i did pretty good with people. I basically spent a conflict free life. I never got into fights on the street with the public and everybody. As i said, they give you a bunch of little tools on how to talk to people. Instead of fighting, instead of throwing punches. Its how you talk to people, the tone that you use. Victim empathy was once again, i didnt really see in this case, i didnt really see that Alfred Beardsley was really affected by it all but bruce was affected. Bruce, i saw he was affected and as i said, i wouldve done anything not to have that happen. If for no other reason, i regret this because he had to have this guy pointed a gun at him. He told me the guy put a gun to his face. I said in the beginning, i didnt believe it but i know it to be a fact now. That empathy course, it pretty much tells the guys who is all there, talk to your victim, what would you say to them if you were to see them now . Take responsibility for what you did and recognize how it affected their lives. Bruce expressed to me how it affected him and as i told him, i could not be more apologetic. Thank you. I know that alcohol factored in the incident, have you address this issue as you stated you would . O. J. i think i made it clear back then, ive never had an alcohol problem. If i took that alcohol course, it would have been for my children encase they ended up having a problem. My kids dont have a problem, i dont think anybody has e