Throughout his remarks, Simpson expressed regret about his crime, saying he should have had “better judgment” and that he wished it would have never happened.
“If I would have made a better judgment back then, none of this would have happened. And I take full responsibility,” Simpson said.
“I haven’t made any excuses in nine years here, but I should have never allowed these alleged security guys to help me because it turned out they were only trying to help themselves.”
One of the parole board members held up a thick stack of paper, saying it was “hundreds of letters” — of both support and opposition — they had received about Simpson.
“The majority of the opposition letters are asking us to consider your 1995 acquittal and subsequent civil judgment, however, these items will not be considered,” she said.
“I realize in my nine years here, that I was a good guy on the street,” Simpson said.
“I was always a good guy, but I could have been a better Christian.”
Asked if he knew how the victims of his robbery were affected, Simpson said he understood the impact.
In fact, one of the victims of the robbery, Bruce Fromong, is at the hearing today — on Simpson’s behalf.
“I never thought that the crime deserved that much time, that long of a sentence,” Fromong told CNN.
Simpson, plus five other men who were carrying guns, allegedly confronted two sports memorabilia dealers and took pieces of memorabilia from them. He has said many times that he never knew his accomplices were carrying guns and that he would never pull a gun on someone. That has been a major theme in his testimony so far.
When Simpson first entered prison, he ate junk food (like cookies, ramen noodles, and sticky cinnamon rolls) and gained a lot of weight, ex-guards said. But in recent years, he’s gone on a health kick and lost weight. Read more about his prison life here.
Simpson today:
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