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"He said he was not involved," Kraft said when questioned by the prosecution, which had said Hernandez was at a bar earlier in that evening, then drove to Boston with two friends, picked up Lloyd and killed him in an industrial park. "That he was innocent and that he hoped that the time of the murder incident came out because he said he was in a club."

That piece of testimony was key, jurors said.

"The one part for me was Aaron's alleged statement that he wished the time that Odin was murdered be made public because he was at a club at that time," one juror said. "To this day, we just went through a three-month trial, this is now a year-and-a-half or two years later, and we still don't know the exact time of Odin's murder, specifically. So I don't know how Aaron would have had that information two years ago. Even today, after medical examiners' review, we still don't have that information."

 

Jurors called Patriots owner Robert Kraft's testimony "riveting" and "key"....

 

http://espn.go.com/boston/nfl/story/_/id/12696046/aaron-hernandez-trial-jurors-say-testimony-new-england-patriots-owner-robert-kraft-compelling

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Yeah, Kraft was certainly the proverbial nail in the coffin. It's pretty clear that Hernandez had something to do with it, even if he didn't pull the trigger. That being said, my personal belief is that this guy is a stone cold crazy ass killer.

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Posted by Darin Gantt on April 21, 2015, 2:44 PM EDT

The man who was in charge of Aaron Hernandez’s last 18 months in jail said the former Patriots tight end should fit right in now that he’s been sentenced to life in prison for first-degree murder.

 

He doesn’t really look at it as jail,” Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson told the Associated Press. “It’s more like training camp.”

 

Hodgson described Hernandez as a prisoner who got by on his charm, though one who reacted poorly to perceived “disrespect” (which might explain why he was convicted of killing Odin Lloyd).

 

Hodgson said not even the guilty verdict changed Hernandez’s demeanor, recalling him saying: “I’ll miss you guys, but they got it wrong. . . .

 

“He didn’t really have much of a change in his demeanor. He pretty much still had a swagger in his step.”

 

Hodgson also said Hernandez tried to trade on his charisma and status as a former football player to his advantage.

 

“He would make every effort to get extra sandwiches,” Hodgson said. “He would just try to convince the officers to give him more than what they otherwise could get.”

 

While Hodgson said Hernandez was generally polite, he did get into a fight with another inmate, and was “accused of threatening to kill a prison guard and his family.”

 

It’s almost like he’s a bad guy, or something.

 

Source: ProFootballTalk

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http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/19159319/jury-acquits-ex-new-england-patriots-tight-end-aaron-hernandez-double-murder-trial

 

Jury acquits ex-Patriots TE Aaron Hernandez in double-murder trial

 

BOSTON -- Ex-NFL star Aaron Hernandez, who is already serving a life sentence for a 2013 murder, was acquitted Friday in a 2012 double slaying prosecutors said was fueled by his anger over a spilled drink.

 

The former tight end for the New England Patriots wept quietly as the verdicts were read in Boston. A few moments later, he looked back at his fiancée and nodded somberly as relatives of the victims sobbed loudly. A defense attorney hugged him.

 

After six days of deliberations, the jury found Hernandez not guilty of first-degree murder in the killings of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado. It convicted him of a single charge: unlawful possession of a gun. The judge sentenced him to an additional four to five years in prison, separate from his existing life sentence.

 

Aaron Hernandez, 27, is currently serving a life sentence for a 2013 murder. AP Photo/Stephan Savoia

Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel Conley said the victims' families were devastated by the verdicts as well as by the defense's portrayal of the men as "gang bangers" and "drug dealers."

 

"These were two hardworking, humble, Cape Verdean immigrants," Conley said. "It was unnecessary and it was wrong, and it shouldn't have been done."

 

Conley said prosecutors and the families take solace in the fact that Hernandez is serving a life sentence in the 2013 killing of Odin Lloyd, a semi-professional football player who was dating the sister of Hernandez's fiancée. Prosecutors in the double-murder trial weren't allowed to mention his conviction in Lloyd's case.

 

"One of the victims' relatives said, 'At least he's not walking out the door today,'" Conley said.

 

The defense team had pointed the finger at Alexander Bradley, an admitted drug dealer and a close friend of Hernandez who was with him the night of the shootings. The defense hammered at Bradley's credibility, citing his immunity deal with prosecutors to testify against Hernandez, his role as the driver of the car the night of the shootings and his criminal record. Bradley is serving a five-year prison term in Connecticut for firing shots at a Hartford nightclub in 2014.

 

Bradley testified that Hernandez became enraged after de Abreu bumped into him while dancing, spilling his drink at a Boston nightclub. He said Hernandez later opened fire on the men's car as they waited at a stoplight.

 

Prosecutors charged Hernandez with shooting Bradley in the face months after the double slaying to try to silence him as a witness. Bradley lost his right eye; Hernandez was acquitted of witness intimidation.

 

Defense attorney Ronald Sullivan Jr. said the jury was able to see through the "smoke and mirrors" that made up the state's case. He described Hernandez as a "very good young man who happened to hang out with a very bad guy in Alexander Bradley."

 

Conley said Friday that prosecutors would not go after Bradley in the killings because they believe they already charged the right person.

 

"Our theory of the case stands," Conley said. "In our minds, [the evidence] points inescapably to Aaron Hernandez."

 

Jury forewoman Lindsey Stringer read a statement outside court, noting the more than 70 witnesses and over 380 exhibits presented in the case.

 

"We based our decision on the evidence presented and the law," Stringer said. She took no questions.

 

Prosecutors introduced evidence at trial that Hernandez got a tattoo that memorialized the double slaying. California tattoo artist David Nelson testified that Hernandez requested an image of a revolver with the gun barrel facing forward. Hernandez wanted five bullets visible in the cylinder of the gun and one cylinder empty, Nelson said.

 

Authorities said Hernandez fired five shots from a revolver into the car carrying de Abreu and Furtado.

 

Hernandez, 27, grew up in Bristol, Connecticut, and played for the Patriots from 2010 to 2012. About six weeks after Furtado and de Abreu were killed, Hernandez signed a five-year, $40 million contract with the Patriots and went on to play another season before Lloyd was killed. He was cut from the team shortly after he was arrested in Lloyd's killing in June 2013. He was not charged in the 2012 killings until 2014.

 

Hernandez's defense team in the double-murder trial included Jose Baez, known for winning an acquittal for Florida mom Casey Anthony in the death of her daughter. Baez wasn't in court Friday; Sullivan said he was dealing with a medical issue.

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And now he's killed himself. What a waste of a life. Sad for his daughter though. That's gonna be a tough life probably.

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Two days in a row the trash took itself out. Could not have happened to a nicer guy.

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http://www.newsweek.com/aaron-hernandez-hidden-sexuality-murder-police-587879

 

TL;DR version.. Hernandez killed Lloyd to protect information that he was bisexual. One of three suicide notes left was for his prison boyfriend.. When he killed Lloyd, he split the money he had into three accounts.. One for his fiancee, one for his daughter, and a majority of the cash went to his long time gay lover and high school friend.

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Newsweek is kinda iffy as to a source. I read that the third note was for his lawyer elsewhere.

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The Post is reporting it as well, but less matter of factly and more so , this may be what happened or allegedly .

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http://hosted.stats.com/fb/story.asp?i=20170921173620606147410

(TSX / STATS) -- Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez, who committed suicide in jail while serving a life sentence for murder, had an advanced stage of degenerative brain disease.

Researchers at the Boston University School of Medicine said in a statement Thursday that Hernandez was dealing with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).

Dr. Ann McKee, the director of the school's CTE Center and Chief of Neuropathology at the VA-BU-CLF Brain Bank, said Hernandez had Stage 3 CTE, with Stage 4 the most severe of the disease that has plagued numerous NFL players.

Hernandez's lawyer, Jose Baez, told Deadspin.com that his law firm filed a federal lawsuit against the NFL and the Patriots on behalf of Hernandez's daughter and Shayanna Jenkins-Hernandez, who was engaged to the player at the time of his death.

The lawsuit said Hernandez had "the most severe case of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) medically seen in a person of his young age of 28 years" by Boston University researchers.

According to the filing, Hernandez's Stage 3 CTE is "usually seen in players with a median age of death of 67 years."

The suit charges that the defendants were "fully aware" of the damage that could be inflicted to Hernandez's brain by the time he entered the NFL in 2010 and "failed to disclose, treat, or protect him from the dangers of such damage."

Hernandez, who played three seasons with the Patriots, died after hanging himself in his cell on April 19. He was serving a life sentence for the murder of Odin Lloyd, a sentence delivered in April 2015.

The suicide came four days after Hernandez was acquitted of a double murder four days in the resolution of a separate case.

Due to a Massachusetts state law, a judge in early May overturned Hernandez's murder conviction on a technicality. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court procedurally voids first-degree murder convictions in cases when a defendant dies before their appeal is heard.

Hernandez was found guilty of first-degree murder after the 2013 killing of Lloyd, a semi-professional football player who was dating Hernandez's fiancee's sister. Lloyd's body was found in an industrial park about one mile away from

Hernandez's home in North Attleboro, Mass.

Hernandez also was charged with murder in the 2012 fatal shootings of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado in Boston. He was acquitted of those charges in mid-April but convicted of unlawful possession of a gun and sentenced to four to five years in prison.

A fourth-round draft pick in 2010, Hernandez signed a seven-year, $40 million contract with the Patriots prior to the 2012 season. That deal included a $12.5 million signing bonus and $15.9 million guaranteed.

 

Guys, what if everyone in the world has CTE?

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I'm sure we all do to an extent. I just dont like how this is being used as an excuse by some.

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Yeah, this doesn't excuse Hernandez's actions, but its very interesting to me that he was so young and played only 3 years and still showed it so badly. Its impossible to test thoroughly on a living person (for now) so we don't often get data for this.

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Yeah I'm wondering if he already had CTE and the NFL just exacerbated it somehow.

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Yeah I'm wondering if he already had CTE and the NFL just exacerbated it somehow.

It definitely can be gotten from high school and college football without the NFL. It does require some head trauma so you can get it from other means, though it seems clear that the more hits you get, the worse it is.

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BOSTON — Aaron Hernandez suffered the most severe case of chronic traumatic encephalopathy ever discovered in a person his age, damage that would have significantly affected his decision-making, judgment and cognition, researchers at Boston University revealed at a medical conference Thursday.

In a diagnosis that linked one of football’s most notorious figures with the sport’s most significant health risk, doctors found Hernandez had Stage 3 CTE, which researchers had never seen in a brain younger than 46 years old, McKee said. The extent of that damage represents another signpost in football’s ongoing concussion crisis, which has seen professional players weigh early retirements and parents grapple with whether to allow their young sons to take up the sport. The findings released Thursday will only heighten those concerns.

At Thursday’s conference, McKee flipped through slides comparing sections of Hernandez’s brain with a sample without CTE. Hernandez’s brain had dark spots associated with tau protein and shrunken, withered areas, compared to immaculate white of the sample. His brain had significant damage to the frontal lobe, which impacts a person’s ability to make decisions and moderate behavior. As some new slides appeared on the projectors, some physicians and conference attendees gasped.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/aaron-hernandez-suffered-from-most-severe-cte-ever-found-in-a-person-his-age/2017/11/09/fa7cd204-c57b-11e7-afe9-4f60b5a6c4a0_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_no-name%3Apage%2Fbreaking-news-bar&tid=a_breakingnews&utm_term=.b3760523f122

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Don't care. He killed people. He consciously chose to. Fuck him

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Don't care. He killed people. He consciously chose to. Fuck him

Its not about absolving Hernandez. Its about the dangers of football.

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The dangers of football that you knowingly and willingly sign up for.

 

There's absolutely no reason to make the game any different as it is. The late hit on the QB, the targeting, the defenseless receiver bullshit. The penalty of even touching someone late out of bounds is ridiculous.

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Shouldnt be all that surprising. Doctors are just now beginning to try and figure out a way to diagnose CTE in living people relatively their patients are older deceased players. I dont think this changes a whole lot but at least the information is getting out there

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