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Article snippet: O. J. Simpson was released on parole in Nevada on Sunday after serving nine years in a state prison on charges stemming from an armed robbery in a Las Vegas hotel room in 2007. Mr. Simpson, 70, was released at 12:08 a.m. local time from Lovelock Correctional Center in northern Nevada, the Nevada Department of Corrections announced. It provided images of Mr. Simpson leaving the prison in a baseball cap, white tennis shoes, jeans and a denim jacket. It was unclear where Mr. Simpson was staying, but his lawyer, Malcolm P. LaVergne, said in an interview on Sunday that “Mr. Simpson is going to wind up in Florida.” As of Sunday afternoon, neither Florida nor California had received the requisite paperwork for Mr. Simpson to return to those states. According to Mr. LaVergne, Nevada needs to make a request to the receiving state, which has 45 days to reply. The Florida attorney general, Pam Bondi, said Mr. Simpson wasn’t welcome there. On Friday, Ms. Bondi sent a three-page letter to the Florida Department of Corrections asking it to notify the authorities in Nevada that Florida objected to granting Mr. Simpson permission to relocate to Florida. She cited the “added dangers that his relocation would pose to our citizens” and “a disturbing history of arrests and destructive behavior,” among other concerns. “Our state should not become a country club for this convicted criminal,” Ms. Bondi wrote. Mr. LaVergne said Ms. Bondi was “completely wrong” and had “absolutely zero ... Link to the full article to read more