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1:25 p.m.: OJ hearing underway

Former NFL football star O.J. Simpson appears with his attorney, Malcolm LaVergne, left, via video for his parole hearing at the Lovelock Correctional Center in Lovelock, Nev., on Thursday, July 20, 2017. Simpson was convicted in 2008 of enlisting some men he barely knew, including two who had guns, to retrieve from two sports collectibles sellers some items that Simpson said were stolen from him a decade earlier. (Lovelock Correctional Center via AP)

LOVELOCK, Nev. (AP) — O.J. Simpson laughed as a parole commissioner told him that he was getting the same hearing as anyone else would.

The comment came today from Connie Bisbee, chairwoman of the Nevada Board of Parole Commissioners. Simpson responded, “Thank you, ma’am.”

Simpson, who appeared thinner and grayer at his parole hearing than when he was last seen four years ago, is pleading on live TV for his release from the Nevada prison where he’s spent more than eight years for armed robbery and assault with a weapon.

The 70-year-old Simpson is asking four Nevada parole board members to release him in October. He has a good chance after they sided with him once before and because he’s kept a clean prison record.

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