The Supreme Judicial Court's decision comes nearly two years after a state judge vacated Hernandez's murder conviction after the former NFL star's suicide. Hernandez was serving a life sentence for the June 2013 murder of Odin Lloyd. Hernandez hanged himself in his prison cell on April 19, 2017, just days after his acquittal on double-murder charges in a separate case.
Aaron Hernandez found hanged 01:25But Wednesday's high court ruling called the longstanding legal principle"outdated and no longer consonant with the circumstances of contemporary life, if, in fact, it ever was."Read MoreInstead, the court said that when a defendant dies during an appeal, the appeal will be dismissed and noted in the court record, and the conviction will stand.
Aaron Hernandez's rise to fame 03:06At the time of the abatement, prosecutors argued that throwing out Hernandez's conviction would"reward the defendant's conscious, deliberate and voluntary act" of killing himself and that the abatement rule has no solid historical or legal basis."A defendant, who can cut off his own criminal appeal by suicide and stall civil litigation by a stay of proceedings ...
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How convenient 🤫🧟♂️
That makes no sense
Good. I hope he dies in prison.
Since patriots owner is White nothing will happen to him but Hernandez is Hispanic,so let’s convict the Hispanics not the whites
Why isn't CNN looking at this massive story You better OUT Joe Biden on this before he becomes the 2020 Candidate.. STAT! This will spell doomsday for the Democrats.. the man is not right..
nobody cares
Patriots owner should be convicted for sexual misconduct... Human trafficking
As a matter of historical facts and legacy these criminal convictions should stand and be on the record for time eternal.
Good. He was guilty.
There are hundreds of laws that were made up 250 years ago that are not relevant to society today.
Aaron did the crime, served some time then took the cowards way out. I have no tears to shed for this.
Framed
Because that gentleman right there has the same brain..... as the Blade Runner And many many more of those Charles Manson's........ No such thing as mental illness.
There is no such thing as CTE..... you can prove that,,,,, By looking at both of those scorpios brains....... There is no such thing as mental illness and all that jazz......... And I can prove that.
'Murderer used to play professional football while murdering people.'
This is silly, he is dead by his choice
He was just a cowardly, IQ-impaired murderer.
Other than saving the Patriots from allegedly having to pay his family, what could possibly be the motivation for this reinstatement?
Everyone out here protesting civil war statues you need to protest that lady justice statue 🤷🏾♂️
Does it really matter? He's dead. Overturning this, isn't setting a guilty man free. The only thing it will do is get his daughter money from his contract.
His family are the ones that suffer. But, this could also be a deterrent to future criminals murderers their legacy will remain as a murderer I'm divided on this issue
What is the “woke” MA to do!?!? They convicted a minority!?! I declare shenanigans. onlywhitepeopleareguilty
That poor kid...
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