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The former football great has been fighting for a new trial of the armed robbery and kidnapping case that landed him in prison years after he famously escaped a conviction. Heâs serving up to 33 years for leading a group of men who attacked two sports memorabilia dealers at gunpoint at a Las Vegas hotel in 2007. Simpson maintains he was only trying to retrieve personal items he believes were his and stolen. Simpson, who is eligible for parole in 2017, filed a new appeal just last week.
If he can't convince prison officials at Lovelock Correctional Center in Nevada to let him have knee surgery, Pardo said Simpson is scared he won't leave prison until he's dead.. I think heâs more worried about leaving in a box â not a wheelchair,â Pardo said. Simpson is currently serving a 9 to 33 year sentence on robbery and kidnapping charges. The former NFL running back was found not guilty of murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman on October 3, 1995. Simpson's purported predicament is emblematic of larger problems in America's prison health care system.