The Juice is loose. Early Sunday morning, former football legend O.J. Simpson was released from a Nevada prison on parole after serving nine years for a botched armed robbery in 2007.
Simpson was released shortly after midnight local time. He will be on parole for five years.
Following his release, state prisons spokeswoman Brooke Keast told the Associate Press that she did not know the driver who met Simpson after his release and she was not immediately aware of where he would be heading.
Keast also noted the reason for Simpson’s early morning release was to avoid any public incident.
“We needed to do this to ensure public safety and to avoid any possible incident,” Keast said, via ESPN.com.
However, it is believed Simpson will be remaining in Nevada for the foreseeable future.
According to NBC News, there are no plans for Simpson to pursue work. Instead, he plans to collect his $25,000 -a-month pension because any additional money would be owed to the families of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown, and her friend, Ron Goldman, who he was accused of murdering in 1994 before being found “not guilty” in the “Trial of the Century.”
Simpson eventually wants to relocate to Florida.
Video of Simpson’s first steps as a free man can be seen below, via the Nevada Department of Corrections.
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Photo Credit: Nevada Department of Corrections
O.J. Simpson Released From Nevada Prison On Parole
