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LOVELOCK, Nev. — He just won’t let it go.
O.J. Simpson insisted Thursday that the trove of sports memorabilia he’s in prison for stealing in 2007 was his to take.
“It’s kind of mind-boggling that they [the state of California] turned over to me my property that I’m in jail for for trying to retrieve it. It was my property — I would never try to steal from anybody,” Simpson told the four-member parole board that’s considering his release.
The Juice’s rambling, unapologetic explanation came in response to the question, “What were you thinking?” regarding the night in 2007 when he led a group of armed men and stormed a Las Vegas hotel room to steal various sports memorabilia.
“The property was yours?” one of the board members asked Simpson, who appeared via a closed-circuit video feed from Lovelock Correctional Center in Nevada, where he’s been locked up on a nine-to-33-year sentence.
That’s when a tense-looking Simpson grew serious.
“It’s been ruled legally by the state of California that it was my property,” he sternly answered.
