Nevada (Las Vegas), Oct 01 (ANI): Former National Football League running back O.J. Simpson was released from the Nevada prison on Sunday, as shown in a video posted on the Facebook page of Nevada Department of Corrections. Nicknamed The Juice, Simpson had been held in the Nevada prison since 2008 for a botched armed robbery at a Las Vegas casino hotel. The Nevada Department of Corrections mentioned on their Facebook page that he had left shortly after midnight time. 70-year-old Simpson got freedom from a Nevada parole board in July at a hearing. The court did not take into account his 1990s trial for the murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and a friend, Ron Goldman. Simpson rose to fame as a Heisman Trophy winner in college and later NFL player, making the Hall of Fame. Simpson’s release is significant considering that the NFL players are currently in a strife with the U.S. President Donald Trump who has asked the entire NFL to stand for the national anthem to “respect our flag and our country” amid the ‘Take a Knee’ protests.
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