LOS ANGELES, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) -- A U.S. judge in Nevada set a 125,000-dollar bail for former football star O.J. Simpson Wednesday, three days after he was arrested on charges of armed robbery of sports memorabilia in a Las Vegas casino hotel.

;Simpson, one of the greatest black athletes in his generation and became infamous for his alleged killings of his ex-wife and her boy friend in Los Angeles in 1994, is expected to post the bail.

The 60-year-old former NFL player has been held without bail at a Nevada jail after he and three other men were arrested on charges of breaking in a Las Vegas hotel room and stealing sports memorabilia at gunpoint.

Simpson has said he was trying to retrieve stolen items that belonged to him, and the Thursday incident was a set-up by some collectors from California.

He faces 10 felony counts including kidnapping and robbery with a deadly weapon, and could face life in prison if convicted.

Simpson was acquitted of murder charges related to the 1994 killings of ex-wife Nicole Brown and her boy friend Ron Goldman. The trial had attracted worldwide media attention as many saw the case a challenge to the U.S. judicial system and an exemplification of the emotional racial issue.

Meanwhile, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Tuesday gave the family of Goldman one week to come up with a list of the memorabilia Simpson supposedly stole in Las Vegas, after they requested to obtain ownership rights to these things.

Simpson was found in 1996 by a grand jury liable for the deaths of Brown and Goldman in a civil lawsuit. And under a judgment Simpson should pay 33.5 million dollars to the Goldman family, but the money remains largely unpaid.