O.J. Simpson to seek parole on Live Television?

O.J. Simpson will go before a parole board in a hearing to decide whether he can be released from prison. CNN's Paul Vercammen reports.

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Simpson, 69, was found guilty in 2008 of armed robbery, kidnapping and other charges stemming from a confrontation with sports memorabilia dealers in a Las Vegas casino hotel room. The altercation occurred in September 2007.

Simpson has already served eight years of his nine-to-33 year sentence.

“He’s popular especially with the sports crowd — guys go up to him and ask him what he thinks about current sports teams,” Jon Hawkins, a former Lovelock inmate who was released on parole this year, told the Los Angeles Times. “O.J. is just a regular dude. He does his job, and he goes to his cell.”

But the former celebrity initially had a difficult time becoming accustomed to life in jail. He was sullen and stayed to himself, according to Norman Pardo, Simpson’s former manager who used to visit.

But the Los Angeles Times reported that Simpson overcame the issues he had at first with other inmates and has evolved into a much better inmate — which could bode well for his parole hearing.

“I would say 99.9 percent of inmates like him, they look up to him,” Felix told the Los Angeles Times.

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