Related: Hernandez's Hail Mary
"Aaron Hernandez featured in the 2014 University of Florida calendar
Whoever put together the 2014 University of Florida school calendar apparently doesn’t watch the news. If they did, it’s unlikely that former Gators football star Aaron Hernandez would be featured as Mr. July 2014. That’s because the disgraced former Patriots tight end is currently sitting behind bars at the Bristol County House of Corrections, charged with not one, not two, but three murders. Officials at the University of Florida said Tuesday that the calendar, featuring Hernandez in a white Gators jersey and blue pants carrying the football under his right arm, was approved months before he was charged with the crimes. (The Pats had no comment.) The calendars are still available for sale through Target.com."
It's enough to make you gag.
"Bristol County prosecutors agreed Thursday that Aaron Hernandez can be moved to a jail closer to Boston, but they strongly rejected complaints from defense attorneys for the former New England Patriots star that he has been mistreated by the Bristol County sheriff’s office, according to court papers. Bristol District Attorney C. Samuel Sutter’s office sharply criticized the defense lawyers, saying they had used a reasonable and routine request to unfairly vilify both Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson and Sutter’s office. “The government vigorously rejects the defendant’s baseless, theatrical, and legally unsupportable allegations of misconduct against both the sheriff and the prosecution contained in his submission,’’ prosecutors wrote."
"Patriots offer to turn over Aaron Hernandez personnel records" by Zachary T. Sampson | Globe Correspondent July 09, 2014
FALL RIVER — Aaron Hernandez was moved Wednesday from a house of correction in North Dartmouth to the Nashua Street Jail in Boston, shortly after his lawyer argued in court that the New England Patriots should release all of the former NFL player’s medical and scouting records.
A judge approved the jail transfer this week so Boston-based defense lawyers preparing for trial can be closer to Hernandez, who is charged with killing three people in two different shootings.
Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins said that Hernandez will spend three to five days in booking at Nashua Street before being assigned to a section of the jail.
“Mr. Hernandez is not going to be treated any differently than any other pretrial detainee,” Tompkins said.
He declined to comment when asked if Hernandez would be put into the general population.
Hernandez appeared earlier Wednesday in Bristol Superior Court , as lawyers for his defense team and for the Patriots debated the importance of his medical and scouting records in his two murder trials.
Andrew C. Phelan, a lawyer for the Patriots, said the organization will turn over 317 pages of Hernandez’s medical records to defense attorneys.
But the team does not want to release nine pages of scouting reports or a psychological report prepared by an outside company at the 2010 NFL combine, Phelan said. He argued that Hernandez’s lawyers are seeking records that are not relevant to the case.
“It is a fishing expedition,” Phelan said.
Michael Fee, a lawyer for Hernandez, said the records are significant because they offer insight into the former athlete’s psyche. Hernandez’s mental state is at issue because he is charged with first-degree murder, which requires prosecutors to prove that a defendant thought about a crime and acted with premeditation.
“State of mind is critical, and it’s the basis of this request,” Fee told Judge Raymond P. Veary Wednesday. “This is not a fishing expedition.”
But Phelan and a prosecutor from the Bristol district attorney’s office, which is trying Hernandez in the killing of Odin Lloyd in North Attleborough, said the scouting and combine reports are several years old. They said the documents will not offer any insight into Hernandez’s mind-set on the night Lloyd, a Dorchester resident, was killed in June 2013.
Fee countered that small blurbs in the scouting reports, written by team officials evaluating Hernandez’s personality and character, might address “prior bad acts” that could come up during the trial.
Authorities have said that Hernandez was involved in a number of violent incidents before the Lloyd slaying and the fatal shooting of Daniel Abreu and Safiro Furtado in Boston’s South End in July 2012.
Assistant District Attorney Patrick Bomberg said some of those incidents, including the alleged shooting of one of Hernandez’s acquaintances, happened long after the Patriots collected their scouting reports in 2009 and 2010.
“To say that a scouting report is a definitive study of the defendant’s prior criminality is something that is obviously not supportable on its face,” Bomberg said.
In a court filing this week, the Patriots said they offered to let Hernandez’s lawyers look at but not copy the combine report, a 1½ page Troutwine Athletic Profile prepared by a private organization, but the defense attorneys have not accepted the offer.
The judge did not rule Wednesday whether the Patriots could be compelled to release the documents. Another hearing was set for July 22.
--more--"
"Investigators in the murder case against Aaron Hernandez interviewed New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick and team owner Robert Kraft last summer, according to the latest court documents in the former player’s pending trial. The interviews were part of a voluminous inventory of evidence that prosecutors have provided Hernandez’s defense team. The documents, released Monday, illustrate the broad scope of the inquiry and the steps that authorities have taken in the case. Also Monday, a judge denied Hernandez’s motion to suppress all evidence obtained in a search of his home last June, which included his cellphone and video footage of his home."
--more--"
Also see:
Aaron Hernandez cousin to plead guilty to contempt
Attorney says Hernandez cousin motivated by ‘love’
