Report: Pats TE questioned in probe

[boozeman]

A wedding could shield Hernandez’s fiancée from testifying

Posted by Mike Florio on June 26, 2013, 5:39 PM EDT

The lengthy summary of evidence from prosecutor Bill McCauley on Thursday included an allegation that Aaron Hernandez’s fiancée initially was cooperating with police. But then, per McCauley, Hernandez called and told her to stop talking to the police. She complied.

This raises an important question as the case unfolds. If Hernandez and his fiancée get married before trial, will she be able to refuse to testify against her husband?

Under Massachusetts law, the answer is yes. “A spouse shall not be compelled to testify in the trial of an indictment, complaint, or other criminal proceeding brought against the other spouse,” the law states regarding the concept of the spousal privilege.

Massachusetts law also recognizes the concept of spousal disqualification, which prevents a spouse from testifying about communications occurring during the marriage — even if the spouse wants to.

And so, if Hernandez and his fiancée get married, she can refuse under Massachusetts law to testify.

There’s also a chance, albeit slim, that Hernandez and his fiancée can claim to have a common-law marriage. Application of the spousal privilege would be far cleaner, however, if Hernandez and his fiancée get married.
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This keeps getting more and more odd.

I can't wait for the additional details to come out...I admit it.

 

[tnt]

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The moment he was told he was under arrest.

 

[Bluestar71]

How stupid do you have to be to think you can be a nationally known figure and get away with a hit job?

There has to be more to the motive than Hernandez' boy was talking to rival thugs. Gang thing or drugs, otherwise just say F him and cut him off from your entourage. It doesn't add up. Then again who knows what goes through these thug's minds.

 

[Cotton]

This may have already been posted, but Hernandez is now also being investigated for an unsolved double homicide in 2012.

 

[Texas Ace]

This may have already been posted, but Hernandez is now also being investigated for an unsolved double homicide in 2012.

Sonofabitch......I know Booze was joking, but maybe Hernandez really was some crime lord or something.

:shocked

 

[Cotton]

Maria Cramer ‏@GlobeMCramer 45m
Hernandez's alleged victim, Odin Lloyd, may have had information about that double killings, officials tell us. Potential motive.

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Just wow.

 

[mcnuttz]

Aaron Hernandez 'shot dead friend because he knew former NFL star was involved in drive-by murder of two men outside nightclub last year'

By MEGHAN KENEALLY and ASSOCIATED PRESS


Former NFL star Aaron Hernandez is believed to have killed an acquaintance ten days ago because that man knew about Hernandez's alleged involvement in a 2012 double murder, according to new reports.

Hernandez is now being investigated in connection with the July 2012 murder of two men after leaving a club in Boston's South End and that double murder is said to be the cause of his more recent alleged shooting.

The Boston Globe broke the news about his possible connection to the 2012 double murder just as a second man has been arrested in connection to the shooting death of Odin Lloyd, whose body was found less than one mile from Hernandez's home.

Connecticut prosecutor Brian Preleski identified the second man as Carlos Ortiz, 27, of Bristol, Connecticut.

Ortiz was charged as a fugitive from justice and waived extradition to Massachusetts. Prison records show he is being held on $1.5million bail at a Hartford jail.
A statement said he was being held in the investigation of the shooting death of semi-pro football player Lloyd, a friend of Hernandez. Lloyd's body was found in North Attleborough, Massachusetts on June 17 in an industrial park near Hernandez's house.

Now The Globe is reporting that Lloyd is believed to have known about Hernandez's alleged involvement in the 2012 double murder of Daniel Abreu and Safiro Furtado and Hernandez reportedly killed Lloyd to keep him quiet.

'The motive might have been that the victim (Lloyd) knew (Hernandez) might have been involved,' unidentified police officials told The Boston Globe.

The July 2012 shooting took place after a fight broke out inside Cure, a South End nightclub.

The fight is said Abreu and Furtado got into an argument with a group of other patrons, which included Hernandez.

As Abreu drove away from the club in his BMW with Furtado in the passenger's seat, a silver or grey SUV with Rhode Island license plates pulled up to the car and started shooting. There were other men in the BMW who all survived the attack but both Furtado and Abreu died.

Police have not said how Hernandez is specifically linked to the silver or grey SUV in question, but they have cited a connection to the vehicle as the reason for their suspicion.

Hernandez's lawyer entered a plea of not guilty for the charges against him for Lloyd's murder and called the prosecution's case- based on surveillance videos and cell phone records- circumstantial. That didn't move the judge, however, as Hernandez was ordered to be held without bail.

Among those texts were two that Lloyd sent to his sister just minutes before he is believed to have been killed.

‘Did you see who I was with?’ said the first, at 3.07am June 17. ‘Who?’ she finally replied.

‘NFL,’ he texted back, then added: ‘Just so you know.’

Moments later, Lloyd would be dead in what a prosecutor called an execution-style shooting orchestrated by Patriots tight end Hernandez because his friend talked to the wrong people at a nightclub.

Prosecutors in Massachusetts on Wednesday said that Hernandez, along with two friends, had picked Lloyd up at his Boston home and driven him to a North Attleborough industrial park where Hernandez shot Lloyd five times with a high-powered handgun.

Prosecutors said Hernandez and Lloyd had argued a few nights before Lloyd's death when they went to a Boston nightclub together and Lloyd spoke with people that Hernandez said he ‘had trouble with.’

On June 14, Lloyd went with Hernandez to the Boston nightclub Rumor. McCauley said Hernandez was upset Lloyd had talked to people there with whom Hernandez had trouble. He did not elaborate.

Two days later, McCauley said, Hernandez texted two unidentified friends and asked them to hurry to Massachusetts from Connecticut. At 9.05pm, a few minutes after the first message to his friends, Hernandez texted Lloyd to tell him he wanted to get together, McCauley said.

Later, surveillance footage from Hernandez's home showed his friends arrive and go inside. Hernandez, holding a gun, then told someone in the house he was upset and couldn't trust anyone anymore, the prosecutor said.

At 1.12am June 17, the three left in Hernandez's rented silver Nissan Altima, McCauley said. Cell towers tracked their movements to a gas station off the highway. There, he said, Hernandez bought blue Bubblicious gum.

At 2:32 a.m., they arrived outside Lloyd's home in Boston and texted him that they were there. McCauley said Lloyd's sister saw him get into Hernandez's car.

From there, surveillance cameras captured images of what the prosecutor said was Hernandez driving the silver Altima through Boston. As they drove back toward North Attleborough, Hernandez told Lloyd he was upset about what happened at the club and didn't trust him, McCauley said. That was when Lloyd began sending texts to his sister.

Surveillance video showed the car entering the industrial park and at 3:23 a.m. driving down a gravel road near where Lloyd's body was found. Four minutes later, McCauley said, the car emerged. During that period, employees working an overnight shift nearby heard several gunshots, McCauley said.

McCauley said Lloyd was shot multiple times, including twice from above as he was lying on the ground. He said five .45-caliber casings were found at the scene.
Hearing: A member of the state's attorney's office went through the detailed evidence against Hernandez

Authorities did not initially say who fired the shots or identify the two others with Hernandez.

At 3.29am, surveillance at Hernandez's house showed him arriving, McCauley said.

‘The defendant was walking through the house with a gun in his hand. That's captured on video,’ he said.

His friend is also seen holding a gun, and neither weapon has been found, McCauley said.

Then, the surveillance system stopped recording, and footage was missing from the six to eight hours after the slaying, he said.

The afternoon of June 17, the prosecutor said, Hernandez returned the rental car, offering the attendant a piece of blue Bubblicious gum when he dropped it off.

While cleaning the car, the attendant found a piece of blue Bubblicious gum and a shell casing, which he threw away. Police later searched the trash bin and found the gum and the casing. The prosecutor said it was tested and matched the casings found where Lloyd was killed.

As McCauley outlined the killing, Lloyd's family members cried and held each other. Two were so overcome that they had to leave the courtroom.

The Patriots said in a statement after Hernandez's arrest but before the murder charge was announced that cutting Hernandez was ‘the right thing to do.’

‘Words cannot express the disappointment we feel knowing that one of our players was arrested as a result of this investigation,’ it said.

A Florida man filed a lawsuit last week claiming Hernandez shot him in the face after they argued at a strip club in February.

Hernandez became a father on Nov. 6 and said he intended to change his ways: ‘Now, another one is looking up to me. I can't just be young and reckless Aaron no more. I'm going to try to do the right things.’

 

[Smitty]

Lol, he couldn't have handed police a better case against him if he had tried. There was absolutely zero thought put into this at all.

 

[BipolarFuk]

Lol, he couldn't have handed police a better case against him if he had tried. There was absolutely zero thought put into this at all.

What do you expect from a rank amateur wannabe thug?

 

[boozeman]

The more you hear about this case the more FAIL Hernandez is as a criminal.

 

[1bigfan13]

Two things.....

First of all, to all you wanna be thugs who are reading this, don't take your cell phone with you when you're going out to commit a crime. I thought this was commonly known information but apparently there's still idiots out there who don't realize that your every move is tracked and recorded when you carry a cell phone.

Second, joke that's been floating around the social media universe. Hernandez is going into prison as a Tight End but he's leaving as a Wide Receiver.

Thank you. You guys have been great. Tip your waitress.

 

[boozeman]

Second, joke that's been floating around the social media universe. Hernandez is going into prison as a Tight End but he's leaving as a Wide Receiver.

Thank you. You guys have been great. Tip your waitress.

 

[Texas Ace]

 

[Texas Ace]

Two things.....

First of all, to all you wanna be thugs who are reading this, don't take your cell phone with you when you're going out to commit a crime. I thought this was commonly known information but apparently there's still idiots out there who don't realize that your every move is tracked and recorded when you carry a cell phone.

Everything that's been revealed so far shows you how dumb this guy is.

But what makes me laugh as how this guy really thought that physically damaging his cell phone was going to eliminate any chance of the cops finding out who he called and who he texted.

 

[L.T. Fan]

Two things.....

First of all, to all you wanna be thugs who are reading this, don't take your cell phone with you when you're going out to commit a crime. I thought this was commonly known information but apparently there's still idiots out there who don't realize that your every move is tracked and recorded when you carry a cell phone.

Second, joke that's been floating around the social media universe. Hernandez is going into prison as a Tight End but he's leaving as a Wide Receiver.

Thank you. You guys have been great. Tip your waitress.

Just turn it off until you want to use it.

 

[Cotton]

 

[Deuce]

@AdamSchefter: Boston PD has located red SUV with RI plates it was looking for as identified in July 2012 homicide. Aaron Hernandez rented it.

 

[Cotton]

@AdamSchefter: Boston PD has located red SUV with RI plates it was looking for as identified in July 2012 homicide. Aaron Hernandez rented it.

Jesus, this dude is screwed.

 

[Kbrown]

Imagine the mental toughness it takes to play pro football with a double murder on your conscience. Any chance we could bring him in for next season?

 

[EZ22]

He's like a failed, wannabe Walter White.