furmong accepted. i know because i've researched this now, there was some civil litigation that went on and this was against one of the -- primarily against one of the uncharged co-defendants in this case, a guy name -- individual named riccio. something happened in this civil litigation, and i don't know what's going on with it at this point in time other than mr. furmong addressed those concerns with me. i told him that i would look into it. i explained to him that he really should talk to his lawyers who were involved in that civil litigation to try to make that judgment do whatever he wants it to do, and it was unfortunate. i believe that, you know, this kind of is an opportunity to show you that in the criminal case, he's completely the victim but he filed this civil lawsuit and the jury found furmong 60% liable for what happened here. it was pretty unique, to say the least. in any event, he's going to testify, but i did feel that i needed to note that i don't think i have a point to prove with hi

it is bruise furmong, i would like to thank you for the opportunity to speak today. first and foremost, i would like to state that i'm not here just as mr. simpson's friend of almost 27 years. because that i am. but today i'm also appearing as the victim of the crime from september 13th of 2007. on that day, i felt that mr. simpson was misguided. not by himself, but also by tom riccio. he was led to believe that on that day, there would be thousands of pieces of personal memorabilia, pictures of his wife, from his first marriage, pictures of his kids. family heirlooms, he said possibly his wife's wedding ring. thousands of things, he was misled about what would be there that day. a man named thomas riccio promised him this big package, in reality, once -- thomas riccio had never met me in his entire life until the night of the robbery. he got there and saw all of this stuff, he went down, got oj, and instead of telling him that's not what was there, he brought him up anyway. and when oj got there, unfortunately he was already worked up. and had people with him that w

furmong have made calls to my office and i've spoken to both of them and the last time i recall speaking to mr. beardsley was in september of 2011. this is not that long after i had maybe been representing mr. simpson for a couple years at that point. i was a little uncomfortable that mr. beardsley, who is a victim in a case and my client is considered the person who victimized him so i did explain to him that i wanted to record the conversation, and he consented and i asked him if he wanted an attorney before he talked to me and he said he was fine. i bring up this recorded conversation because i reviewed it in anticipation of this hearing and that was from 2011, as i stated before, and since he's no longer here, i think i could just speak from the dead -- speak from, you know, someone who's speaking from the dead. he indicated in no uncertain terms in that conversation that he had cleared up this matter with mr. simpson. he was trying his hardest to do whatever you want to get mr. simpson out of prison, and he had just -- they had just made right. mr. simpson had apologized to him. and