O.J. Simpson to return to court; accused of violating bail

Former football star and actor O.J. Simpson is back in custody after allegedly violating the terms of his bail in relation to his recent armed robbery case, a Las Vegas court official said Friday.

Currently in custody in Florida, Simpson is scheduled to appear at a hearing before U.S. District Court Judge Jackie Glass in Las Vegas on Wednesday, a clerk said.

The hearing was scheduled at the request of Clark County district attorney David Roger, who on Friday was said to be filing a motion to revoke Simpson's bail.

In mid-September, Simpson was arrested after he and his friends allegedly conducted a raid on two sports memorabilia dealers at the Palace Station casino-hotel in Las Vegas.

He has claimed he was simply retrieving items that had been stolen from him.

A few days later, Simpson was released on $125,000 US bail after agreeing to surrender his passport and not contact any witnesses or co-defendants.

He was subsequently arraigned, along with two other men, on 12 charges, including suspicion of kidnapping and armed robbery of the two memorabilia dealers. In late November, he entered a not guilty plea.

Glass had set trial for Simpson and his co-defendants — Charles (Charlie) Ehrlich and Clarence (C.J.) Stewart — for April 7.

Infamous after his 1995 acquittal of killing his wife Nicole Brown-Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman, Simpson was nevertheless later deemed liable for their deaths in a civil trial and ordered to pay $33.5 million US.

In 2006 and throughout 2007, he was the target of public scrutiny once again after participating in a ghost-written book project entitled If I Did It, which purportedly details how he would have committed the killings.