Imprisoned former football star O.J. Simpson has a parole hearing date in Nevada next month, prison officials said Tuesday.

State Board of Parole Commissioners official David Smith said Simpson, now 70, is due to appear July 20 before a panel of four parole commissioners who could approve his release for October 1.

Simpson will be at the Lovelock Correctional Center, where he has been serving his nine-to-33 year sentence for armed robbery and kidnapping from a confrontation with two sports memorabilia dealers at a Las Vegas casino hotel in September 2007.

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