OJ mounts new robbery case appeal

Lawyers for ex-American football star OJ Simpson have appealed to Nevada’s supreme court, seeking his release from prison and a new trial in his 2007 armed-robbery case.

The lawyers met a deadline to submit a request for the court to review Simpson’s claim that the 2008 trial in Las Vegas was tainted by his fame and notoriety following his 1995 acquittal in Los Angeles over the deaths of his ex-wife and her friend.