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O.J. Simpson was granted parole from prison on Thursday after serving nine years for a botched armed robbery in a Las Vegas hotel room and will be released in October.
He was originally sentenced to 33years in prison in 2007 after found guilty of armed robbery and kidnapping.
A four member Nevada parole board unanimouslly voted to release 70-year-old former NFL star , who was acquitted in a sensational double-murder trial that gripped America two decades ago, after an often emotional hearing that included testimony from his daughter and one of his victims.
Simpson participated in the proceedings by live video feed from Lovelock Correctional Center, about 100 miles (161 km) from the parole board’s office in Carson City.