NFL players Maurkice and Mike Pouncey, Hernandez's fiancee Shayanna Jenkins Hernandez and others arrive at the funeral. Hernandez's daughter, Avielle Janelle Hernandez, is at center. Buffalo Bills linebacker Brandon Spikes at the funeral.
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Massachusetts' highest court on Wednesday reinstated the late Aaron Hernandez's murder conviction, which was erased after the former NFL star died by suicide in prison.
April 15, 2015 — Hernandez found guilty of first-degree murder in the June 17, 2013 shooting death of Odin Lloyd. The conviction carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole. May 11, 2015 — Hernandez indicted on a charge related to the shooting of Alexander Bradley in 2013.
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She died in 2015. The charge of conspiracy to commit being an accessory after the fact of murder was dropped against Tanya in August 2015, due to her health and probation period, per The Sun Chronicle. According to the docuseries, Tanya died in October 2015 at home.
Aaron Hernandez's murder conviction was reinstated Wednesday by Massachusetts' highest court in a ruling that also ended an antiquated legal rule in which convictions were thrown out when a defendant died before an appeal was heard.
Nearly three months after being found guilty of first-degree murder in the killing of Odin Lloyd, former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez's appeal to get the verdict overturned was thrown out Wednesday.
The Supreme Judicial Court unanimously found that the legal rule that erased Hernandez's conviction is "outdated and no longer consonant with the circumstances of contemporary life." It ordered that Hernandez's conviction be restored and that the practice be abolished for future cases.
In 2015, he was convicted to life in prison for the murder of Lloyd. Two years later, just days after he was acquitted on a double homicide — an unsolved case from 2012 that had been connected to Hernandez after Odin's death — the former Patriot was found dead in his prison cell.
After Hernandez was convicted of the 2013 murder of Odin Lloyd, a semi-professional football player who was dating the sister of Hernandez's fiancée, he got a tattoo on his neck. It featured a black star with a skull under it, including the words “loyalty” and “lifetime.”
While on trial for Lloyd's murder, Hernandez was also indicted for the 2012 double homicide of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado; he was acquitted after a 2017 trial. Days after being acquitted of the double homicide, Hernandez was found dead in his cell, which was ruled a suicide.
Hernandez's defense attorney, James Sultan, in his opening statement told the jury to "decide this case based on the evidence presented in this courtroom." He said you can't convict someone based on what you hear in the media.
State prosecutor William McCauley made the prosecutor’s case Tuesday, and he started by setting the scene at a club where Hernandez allegedly told a woman, "You should be grateful I'm paying you attention." McCauley claims that comment is significant because it proves Hernandez won't be disrespected.
The line of questioning centered on air pressure in car tires before Sultan prepared to ask his final question. Sultan deadpanned about Hernandez's former team, the New England Patriots, without mentioning the Super Bowl champions, and their latest controversy related to the inflation level of footballs at the AFC Championship Game.
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Fee offered specifics: Lloyd not only served as Hernandez's marijuana connection, he also rolled the blunts that Hernandez preferred. "He was the bluntmaster," Fee told the jury. He seemed to be saying that no stoner would ever consider a harming a supplier who could also produce the most exquisite of blunts.
He offered a vivid example of their partying: A few days before Lloyd was murdered, Fee said, Hernandez and Lloyd went to Rumor, a nightclub in Boston, and found a couple of "young women.". They drove the women to an apartment in Franklin that Hernandez kept and spent the night with them, according to Fee.
Before the trial began, Hernandez's legal team succeeded in barring evidence that could have been disastrous for Hernandez. Responding to the lawyers' detailed and authoritative arguments, Bristol County Superior Court Justice E. Susan Garsh told prosecutors they would not be permitted to use as evidence the ammunition found in Hernandez's house that matched the gun used in the killing. And she eliminated fearful text messages that Lloyd sent in the moments before his death. Garsh also barred the use of evidence the police took from five mobile devices that belonged to Hernandez and eliminated any mention of the double murder charges against Hernandez that are pending in Boston.
He described their friendship in graphic terms: "They partied together. They smoked marijuana together. Odin Lloyd supplied Aaron with his marijuana. They went to nightclubs together. They chased girls together."
Nearly two dozen times in a 48-minute presentation, attorney Michael Fee repeated the phrase "his friend Odin Lloyd."
Before Fee began his riff about the warm and fuzzy friendship of two young men, prosecutor Patrick Bomberg used dozens of security videos, text messages and phone records to show the jury how Hernandez orchestrated the evening that resulted in Lloyd's murder.
It was enough for conviction, Garsh said, if Hernandez " knowingly participated" in the murder.
Former New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez has been indicted on a first-degree murder charge for the death of Odin Lloyd.
CORRECTS DAY TO FRIDAY - Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez attends his double murder trial during the sixth day of jury deliberations at Suffolk Superior Court Friday, April 14, 2017 in Boston. Hernandez is standing trial for the July 2012 killings of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado who he encountered in a Boston nightclub. The former NFL player is already serving a life sentence in the 2013 killing of semi-professional football player Odin Lloyd. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia, Pool)
Kraft testified that Hernandez proclaimed his innocence to him and told the team owner that “he hoped that the time of the murder … came out because I believe he said he was in a club.”
Aaron Hernandez found hanged in cell. Jared Wickerham/Getty Images/file. NORTH ATTLEBORO, MA - AUGUST 22: Aaron Hernandez sits in the courtroom of the Attleboro District Court during his hearing on August 22, 2013 in North Attleboro, Massachusetts.
One man said his time on the case made him “appreciate how quickly life can end and how fleeting it can be.”
Hernandez is standing trial for the July 2012 killings of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado who he encountered in a Boston nightclub. The former NFL player is already serving a life sentence in the 2013 killing of semi-professional football player Odin Lloyd.
Asked whether they would say anything to Hernandez, one of the women on the panel said simply, “Nothing.” Others nodded in apparent agreement.