O.J. Simpson, 76, appears frail as he’s spotted walking in Las Vegas
nypost.comDaily Mail reported in 2015 that while serving his sentence at the Lovelock Correctional Center in Nevada, he was forced to use a cane to move about.Simpson was granted parole and released in 2017.During the bombshell 1994 case involving the murders of Simpson’s ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ron Goldman, the former athlete’s attorney Johnnie Cochran claimed that Simpson couldn’t have committed the murders due to the injuries he endured during his football career.
The star had gone through two surgeries on his left knee in the late 1970s.Cochran, who died in March 2005 at the age of 67, asked Simpson to show the jury the multiple surgery scars on his leg.
Simpson was later acquitted of all charges in the case, which was dubbed the Trial of the Century by the media.In later years, the former convict has sporadically popped up at public events.
He’s also been vocal on social media. Simpson recently told his X (formerly Twitter) followers that he believed the trial of South Carolina socialite Alex Murdaugh could have ended like his own. “I don’t know why they think I’m an expert,” Simpson chuckled in a March video. “People keep asking me my opinion of the Alex Murdaugh trial.”“I am not qualified to really say if the guy did it or you didn’t do it,” Simpson went on. “But from what I’ve seen, do I think it’s more likely that he did it?
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