Former football legend O.J. Simpson became a free man Sunday
after serving nine years for a botched hotel room heist that brought the
conviction and prison time he avoided after his 1995 acquittal in the killings
of his ex-wife and her friend.
Simpson
was released at 12:08 a.m. PDT from Lovelock Correctional Center in northern
Nevada, state prisons spokeswoman Brooke Keast told The Associated Press. She
said she did not know the driver who met Simpson upon his release and didn’t
know where Simpson was immediately headed in his first hours of freedom.
“I don’t have any information on where he’s going,”
Keast added.
Neither Simpson’s attorney, Malcolm LaVergne in Las Vegas,
nor state Parole and Probation Capt. Shawn Arruti, who has been handling
Simpson’s case, immediately responded to messages.
Keast said the dead-of-night release from the prison about
90 miles (145 kilometers) east of Reno, Nevada, was conducted to avoid media
attention.
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