Aaron Hernandez charged with Murder

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<p>Roger Goodell wants to be the face of the NFL massive clean-up effort. The only sure fire way to protect that kind of legacy is to prohibit drafting of any player who has ever been convicted of any crime in college. Maybe that’s not such a bad idea. These guys have got to grow up sometime, and why should they be entitled to all that money if they can’t get it together?</p>

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<p>ESPN has a list of athletes charged with murder, homicide or manslaughter. [Aaron</a> Hernandez joins list of active athletes charged with murder, homicide and/or manslaughter - ESPN Boston](<a href=“http://espn.go.com/boston/nfl/story/_/id/9426489/aaron-hernandez-joins-list-active-athletes-charged-murder-homicide-manslaughter]Aaron”>Aaron Hernandez joins list of active athletes charged with murder, homicide and/or manslaughter - ESPN)</p>

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<p>And yesterday a rookie free agent - meaning undrafted player - for the Browns was charged with attempted murder for hitting some guy in the head outside a bar. He was released.</p>

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<p>Hey–This is not anything new in the NFL. Ray Lewis got a statue in his honor…unfortunately for Mr. Hernandez, they have surveillance and cell phone records.</p>

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<p>Amazing. Amazing.</p>

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<p>According to multiple reports, Hernandez is now being investigated for a 2012 double murder in Boston’s South End.</p>

<p>Yikes</p>

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[Former</a> Patriots player Aaron Hernandez is probed in two more murders, law enforcement officials say - Boston.com](<a href=“http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/2013/06/27/former-patriots-player-aaron-hernandez-probed-two-more-murders-law-enforcement-officials-say/0GPNwDdsU4nguqnB2LADYM/story.html]Former”>http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/2013/06/27/former-patriots-player-aaron-hernandez-probed-two-more-murders-law-enforcement-officials-say/0GPNwDdsU4nguqnB2LADYM/story.html)</p>

<p>If Lloyd told other people, that would provide motive. Lloyd talking to people Hernandez didn’t like as a reason didn’t make much sense, but this could explain it.</p>

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<p>Lets remember though that Hernandez is entitled to a presumption of innocence and that his guilt must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. He has a constitutional right to remain silent so the fact that he allegedly “failed to cooperate” with the police isn’t evidence of guilt. He’s got excellent legal representation. I hope Sam Sutter (the Bristol County DA) is up to this. </p>

<p>I shall speculate about one thing though. If Hernandez is let out on bail, will he marry his “fiancee?” There is some speculation that he will so she won’t have to testify against him.</p>

<p>According to news reports, she WAS cooperating with police until Hernandez told her to shut up.</p>

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<p>What is the law? Conversations and knowledge prior to legal marriage is protected by spousal privilege after a legal union?</p>

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<p>Many states grant that privilege only for communications made during the marriage and not before. Does Mass law grant the privilege for statements before the marriage?</p>

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<p>Apparently statements before marriage are covered:</p>

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[Section</a> 504. Spousal Privilege and Disqualification; Parent-*Child Disqualification](<a href=“http://www.mass.gov/courts/sjc/guide-to-evidence/504.htm]Section”>http://www.mass.gov/courts/sjc/guide-to-evidence/504.htm)</p>

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<p>Bail denied in District Court today; he is in jail until trial.</p>

<p>There is speculation that the folks the victim was talking to in the nightclub several nights earlier (that supposedly raised Hernandez’ ire) were somehow related (not necessarily family related) to the victims in the earlier double homicide.</p>

<p>Even if Hernandez did not actually shoot the victim, if he was present, orchestrated it, carried a weapon, knew (or even if he did NOT know) that others were going to shoot the guy, and they did in fact shoot the guy (in fact, it doesn’t have to have all those preceding factors either), it’s first degree murder.</p>

<p>The GF - Do you think she’d really marry him? Her sister was the victim’s girlfriend… that would be strange. But I’ve seen stranger things. Crowds outside the courthouse cheering for Hernandez??? Yuck, that makes my stomach turn.</p>

<p>Several towns over, a condo Hernandez owned and an abandoned vehicle were searched.</p>

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<p>This case has legs… a lot more interesting than the Trayvon Martin case.</p>

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<p>^ ha, makes me feel better for being so fascinated :)</p>

<p>It really seems as if one of the other two in the car (allegedly, allegedly) has made a deal. The prosecution seems to have a lot of evidence that could only have come from a third party involved.</p>

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<p>Does anyone else find it ironic that his touchdown move is shoveling dirt but he didn’t hide the evidence?</p>

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<p>^^ ha ha originalguy!! </p>

<p>Everytime I think there can’t be anymore evidence of his stupidity, something else comes out. The prosecution has been pretty forthcoming about much of the evidence. I still can’t reconcile how someone so dumb (combined, perhaps, with some I’m an Untouchable Sociopath characteristic) can perform so effectively as a top tight end in a complex offensive scheme. It must just be a very different kind of smarts…</p>

<p>Now former teammates and stories from local locker room press are telling “he was never a great teammate” stories.</p>

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<p>According to Sports Illustrated article on last week’s events (written prior to the arrest):</p>

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<li><p>Devastation over his father’s sudden death at age 49, when Hernandez was a teenager. Was his “best friend” and he drifted more into his friends in Bristol, CT after that. Sounds like a middle class upbringing.</p></li>
<li><p>Current girlfriend was high school sweetheart, so that’s a long history. Purportedly the sister dated the victim for two years.</p></li>
<li><p>Described as having a “brilliant football IQ” who cultivated a tough guy image in college.</p></li>
<li><p>Failed drug tests nearly every time he returned to Florida from home to CT, where he of course was old school loyal to his friends there (same old story with many of these athletes, it seems). Friendship with Tim Tebow at Florida “helped him immensely” however.</p></li>
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<p>This plus pretty much everything else widely reported elsewhere.</p>

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<p>I rarely follow sports stories, but did start reading about this one because I also grew up in Bristol, CT. I now realize that I knew Aaron’s father Dennis, and his uncles Vito and David. Weird. I was a few years older than his dad and was the monitor at the cafeteria table where he and his twin brother sat. Very sorry to read that Dennis passed away at such a young age.</p>

<p>Such an awful waste of promise and talent, if the accusations are true. What a sad and pointless crime.</p>

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<p>Well…news reports make it sound as if police are searching several places for evidence–uncle’s house in Bristol, Connecticut, cousin’s condo in Franklin, Mass, rental car used last July.</p>

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<p><a href=“http://www.milforddailynews.com/features/x986309373/Police-at-Franklin-condo-in-connection-to-Hernandez-case#axzz2XSd0Qaif[/url]”>http://www.milforddailynews.com/features/x986309373/Police-at-Franklin-condo-in-connection-to-Hernandez-case#axzz2XSd0Qaif&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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