A new prison photo shows a smiling O.J. Simpson
There’s a new prison photo of Nevada’s Prisoner 1027820, O.J. Simpson, who has rarely been seen since his incarceration in 2008.
Simpson has been in the public eye again since FX’s popular “The People v. O.J. Simpson” and now, just days ahead of the debut of ESPN’s “O.J.: Made in America,” there’s a glimpse of what one of the most popular athletes in America now looks like. In the photo, Simpson, who turns 69 next month, is smiling and looking at ease in the uniform he wears at Nevada’s Lovelock Correctional Center. The Nevada Department of Corrections says there’s no significance to the timing of the new mugshot. His last photo was taken in July 2013; the new one was taken in mid-May.
“We take new photos of inmates periodically per policy,” NDOC spokeswoman Brooke Keast told The Post in an email, “and that is all this is — an update to his file.”
Simpson was sentenced to up to 33 years in prison after being found guilty in 2008 of criminal conspiracy, kidnapping, assault, robbery and using a deadly weapon in an incident in which he said he said he was trying to reclaim memorabilia from his sports career. Included among items he said were stolen from him were his Heisman Trophy and a ring he had given to Nicole Brown Simpson. Simpson, who was found not guilty in the murder of Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, said he had wanted to give the ring to the daughter he and Nicole shared.
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Simpson is incarcerated in a medium-security facility 90 minutes northeast of Reno and is eligible for parole next year. He was granted parole on some charges in 2013, but there were other convictions for which he was ineligible for parole.
Simpson was found not guilty of the murders of Brown Simpson and Goldman in 1997, but was found to be liable by a civil court. Now, with the possibility of parole approaching for Simpson, a former Los Angeles police officer and part-time actor who has been a friend of The Juice for years thinks he might be ready to confess to the killings.
“The guy is in total torment today,” Ron Shipp, who admitted he has not seen his friend, told The New York Daily News at the Los Angeles premiere of ESPN’s “O.J. Simpson: Made in America” documentary, which begins June 11. “Someone told me he is 300 pounds and he looks horrible. O.J. has always felt his appearance meant everything and now, deep down inside, he is starting to live with himself.”
Shipp testified during Simpson’s 1995 trial that the football Hall of Famer told him he had had dreams of killing Brown Simpson.
“I hope one day he actually will rid us of all the doubt and all the conspiracy theories and say, ‘Sorry I cannot go to prison [because of double jeopardy laws], but I am sorry I did it.’ ”
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