mr. lavern and mr. simpson back to the table, please? >> yes, ma'am. >> mr. lavern, this would be the time for you and mr. simpson to make any closing remarks you would like to make. >> thank you, commissioner, do you have copy of a letter i provided through your liaison, an undated letter from mr. simpson to assemblyman. give me two seconds to set up here because that's where i'm going to start. >> i can't find it now. the letter is very short. i think it is appropriate to just read it into the record if the commissioners will allow me to. >> that will be fine. >> okay, the first thing i have to do is find it. here it is. by way of setting this letter up, by the way, the most important part of this letter is this is not a letter that mr. simpson provided to me, okay? what happened is mr. simpson as some point wanted me to communicate with a individual by the name of an assemblyman now, prior to the time and now he is an attorney, and he was attorney during the habeaus proceedings prior to this. he became an assemblyman with the nevada legislature. after that

mr. laverne and mr. simpson back to the table, please >> yes, ma'am. >> mr. laverne, and mr. simpson, this is the time for you to make closing remarks. >> do you have any letter that i provided, it is an undated letter that was provided to you. >> yes, sir, we do have that on the record give me two seconds to get started here that's where i am going to start. >> did you take the letter i cannot find it now the letter you can see is very short. it is appropriate to read it into the record if the submission would allow me to >> that would be fine. >> okay, the first thing i have to do is find it here it is by way of setting this letter up, by the way, the most important part of the letter is, this was not a letter that mr. simpson provided to me, okay mr. simpson at some point wanted me to communicate of the individual he's still an attorney and in the interest of full disclosure, since that time oswaldo, he's a friend of mine, too. he became an assembly line of the nevada legislature after that, mr. simpson sin since -- i found out the letter not through mr. simpson. i found o

mr. laverne and mr. simpson, if you'd return to the table, please. before we break for deliberation, i want to ask the panel if they have any questions? okay. what's gonna happen now is deliberations. again, another thing we do with every single case, but a little differently today because frankly we need our offices back, folks. so we're hoping to deliberate, come to an agreement and be able to produce an order sometime in the next 30 minutes or so. what's gonna happen, we are going to break. and then after deliberating we'll come back to this room. i'll ask each commissioner to vote. i'll vote myself. if we are able to agree when those votes are cast, that will be a final decision. if it becomes obvious that there is a split on this particular panel, i have commissioners eddie gray and commissioner michael heeler stand by in las vegas and they will either -- we will call them. they will either cast the vote then or ask to return to deliberations. so that is what we are planning at this moment. we are about to leave the room. i know officers bautist

mr. laverne and mr. simpson again and we invite mr. furmong to the table, please. >> yes, ma'am. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> and put your own name on the record for us, please, and then proceed. >> yes. it is bruce furmong and i'd like to thank the -- thank you for the opportunity to be able to speak today. first and foremost, i'd 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 on september 30 -- or september 13 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 were going to be thousands of pieces of his personal memorabilia, pictures of his wife from his first marriage, pictures of his kids, arnelle and jason, family heirlooms. he was told there were going to be possibly his wife's wedding ring. thousands of things. he was misled about what was going to be there that day. a man named thomas riccio had promised him this big -- thi

mr. lavern and mr. simpson, if you will return to the table, please? before we break for deliberation. i want to ask the panel if they have any last questions. okay. what will happen now is dib ration, again, another thing we do, we frankly need our offices back, folks. we're hoping to deliberate, come to an agreement, and be able to produce an order in the next 30 minutes or so. what is going to happen is we are going to break, and after deliberating we'll come back to this room. i'll ask each commissioner to vote, i will vote myself, if we're able to agree when the votes are cast, that will be a final decision. if it becomes obvious there is a split on this panel, i have eddie grey and we will call them and they will cast a vote then or ask to return to deliberation. that is what we're planning at this moment. we're about to leave the room. i know officer batista is going to arrange to clear the courtroom there also. i ask here that you give us about two minutes to clear out of the room so they're not chasing us down the hall, and then we will give you a five minute notice that our d

mr. laverne, this would be the time for you and mr. simpson to make any closing remarks that you'd like to make. >> well, thank you, commissioner. i have a letter i provided through your liaison. it's an undated letter from mr. simpson to assembly man oswaldo fumo. that should have been provided to you. >> we do have that as part of the record. >> give me two seconds to get set up here, because that's where i'm going to start. did you take the letter? i can't find it now. and the letter, as you can see, is very short, i think it would be appropriate just to read it into the record if the commissioners would allow me to. >> that would be fine. >> okay. but the first i think i have to do is find it. here it is. by way of setting this letter up, by the way, the most important part about this letter is that this was not a letter that mr. simpson provided to me, okay? what happened is mr. simpson, at some point, wanted me to communicate with an individual by the name of oswaldo fumo. he's an assemblyman and prior to that time and still now

mr. simpson's attorney, malcolm laverne.irst thing i want to ask you, i know you have spoken with o.j. since the decision. what is his state of mind and what specifically can you share with us that he told you? >> mr. simpson is on cloud nine. he likes the outcome. he likes extending time with his family. everything is huck from the moon at this -- everything is hung from the moon. he had a change of custody status and they will change that up until he's released. mr. simpson enjoyed general population status the entire time he has been there. once the decision was made the wardens modified that and he had to move his cell to an area where he's more protected. judge jeanine: what's the reasoning behind that? >> for his own safety and basically not to rule things up. there is a legitimate concern about threats against him. fred goldman is my primary concern. i was there when mr. simpson was informed. judge jeanine: before you get into fred goldman. he was in general population for nine years and was never considered at risk.

laverne represented him at the parole hearing. he joins us now from las vegas. tell me why he's in protective custody? >> mr. simpson is a hybrid.eral population. it's a hybrid and they're making sure no one takes shots at him or no one on the outside is asking people on the inside to take some last minute shot for fame or knnoterity. he is a people person. loves people. loves to interact with them and always enjoyed restrictions at the prison for nine years this is a bummer for him but i made it clear would he like for his parole to have been denied and stay in gen pop or his parole have been granted and be restricted and he's in between and he's going to have to deal with it. >> have there been threats against him? >> from my viewpoint, yes. yes, there have been threats from the outside against him. >> i want to go back to the parole hearing that day, last week did you cringe when o.j. simpson said i basically lead a conflict free life? many people were very upset about that remark considering the well-known documentation of his abuse against nicole brown simpson? >> no, i didn't cringe at all. i thought that's an appropriate