Aaron Hernandez committed suicide in middle of the night

[Ellsworth]

https://twitter.com/bostonglobe/stat...43058805276672

[thegodfather]

https://twitter.com/bostonglobe/stat...43058805276672

So 2 trials, 2nd one a complete waste of time. You hold a trial for a guy serving 2 life sentences and he gets acquitted and is all smiles, now he kills himself. This is what we spend our taxpaying money on.

[SCREAMIN EAGLE]

https://twitter.com/bostonglobe/stat...43058805276672

Rot in hell

[Big Little]

He's a POS glad taxes are not being wasted any longer on his dumb ass

Wonder if the Cheatriots visiting the WH today sent him over the edge?

You can take the thug out of the streets, but not the street out of the thug..

[Susquehanna Birder]

Good riddance.

[BigSlizz]

3 years into a life sentence. Those Patriots cheat at everything.

[Irish George]

Great thought

So 2 trials, 2nd one a complete waste of time. You hold a trial for a guy serving 2 life sentences and he gets acquitted and is all smiles, now he kills himself. This is what we spend our taxpaying money on.

Why have sympathy for the victims when you can get a sandy vagina over your tax dollars? I'm guessing you wanted him put to death or killed in the prison yard before the first trial

[GeorgeWashington Engle]

You're a fucking idiot

Why have sympathy for the victims when you can get a sandy vagina over your tax dollars? I'm guessing you wanted him put to death or killed in the prison yard before the first trial

Douche nozzle.

[Sect 236]

Because of Mass law, Hernandez now considered an "innocent man" and Odin Lloyd's family have no closure on his murder.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...er-conviction/

[McCarthy12]

Interesting question raised in the comments - Can Hernandez's estate seek the money from the Patriots contract that was vacated because of the conviction? Underlying basis for vacating the contract no longer exists.

[CbEagle]

that's a really good question and maybe one reason for Hernandez offing himself.

[IronEagle]

Interesting question raised in the comments - Can Hernandez's estate seek the money from the Patriots contract that was vacated because of the conviction? Underlying basis for vacating the contract no longer exists.

I read that under MA law anybody that dies before having their appeal heard automatically has their conviction vacated. I also read that anybody convicted of first degree murder in MA gets an automatic appeal.

So if that is correct Hernandez is now technically innocent of a crime (even though he was previously charged and convicted) and any claims based on that conviction would appear to be invalid. Seems like MA lawmakers need to change some things.

[Loki]

Such a Trumpian point of view

[Irish George]

Not really

Because of Mass law, Hernandez now considered an "innocent man" and Odin Lloyd's family have no closure on his murder.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...er-conviction/

Just presumed innocent in a legal sense for the appeal proceeding. You can't un-do the original conviction with a bedsheet.

[McCarthy12]

Sadly, in the eyes of the law, you can. The conviction will be vacated. Never happened. Kind of like if you have your record expunged. The legal answer to the question of whether you were ever found guilty of the expunged offense becomes "no."

How that plays out with regard to the Pats contract will be the $40 million dollar question.