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Simpson ordered to release financial records
Bronco chase tape released; first day of deliberations complete
January 29, 1997Web posted at: 3:45 p.m. EST
SANTA MONICA, California (CNN) -- O.J. Simpson was ordered Wednesday to provide additional financial records to plaintiffs suing him for wrongful death. At the same time, the civil trial jury held its first full day of deliberations.
The jurors began deliberating at 8:35 a.m. Just before lunch, they asked Judge Hiroshi Fujisaki for a magnifying glass to examine photographs and a picture of a test tube similar to the one containing a sample of Simpson's blood.
Fujisaki gave them the magnifying glass but told them they already had a test tube as part of the evidence given to them when they began deliberating.
Meantime, an audiotape of Simpson's cellular phone conversation with police shortly before his arrest has been released. He's heard talking during the low-speed Bronco chase on June 17, 1994, five days after ex-wife Nicole and her friend Ron Goldman were murdered.
Transcript of Simpson 'Bronco chase' call
"All I did was love Nicole," a distraught Simpson tells Los Angeles Police Detective Tom Lange. "I can't take this."
"Nobody is going to hurt you," says Lange, who urges Simpson to throw his gun out of the vehicle being driven by Simpson's friend A.C. Cowlings.
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 "All I did was love Nicole..." (289K/26 sec. AIFF or WAV sound)
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"Just let me get to my house..." (391K/35 sec. AIFF or WAV sound)
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"I can't take this..."(384K/32 sec. AIFF or WAV sound)
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"I love everybody..."(544K/47 sec. AIFF or WAV sound)
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The tape was provided by a publisher in connection with the release of a new book by Lange, now retired, and former Los Angeles detective Philip Vannatter.
Financial records crucial to outcome
The plaintiffs requested the financial information at a morning hearing in Judge Hiroshi Fujisaki's chambers. They accused Simpson of defying a court order by failing to produce up-to-date information on his financial holdings.
Simpson's worth would be used to calculate punitive damages if the jury finds him liable for the 1994 killing of Ron Goldman or for the battery of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson.
Relatives of the victims argue that information they've received from Simpson places a value of $1 on each of two pension plans which last year had a combined value of several million dollars.
They also charge Simpson has failed to explain what happened to a franchise he owned a year ago that was valued at more than $1 million.
Simpson had until 5 p.m. (8 p.m. EST) to provide the financial documents.
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