Na na na na, Na na na na, hey hey hey . . .

good bye!

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/04/15/verdict-reached-in-aaron-hernandez-murder-trial/

I guess acting like a smug punk while your lawyers argue you were a scared kid who didn't know what to do isn't a great strategy after all.

til some sniveling podcaster that couldn't get into law school comes along and tries to get him a retrial

In reply to drummerfromdefleopard:

Thanks to Massachusetts law, it automatically goes to appeal....yah know, gotta keep those lawyers cosy on Martha's Vineyard.

yamaha wrote: In reply to drummerfromdefleopard: Thanks to Massachusetts law, it automatically goes to appeal....yah know, gotta keep those lawyers cosy on Martha's Vineyard.

Appeals can be denied still though right?

Athletic ability notwithstanding, this guy has been a scumbag most of his life, from his youth in Connecticut, to his college years in Florida, to his multi-millionaire adult life as an NFL player. Always hung with the wrong crowd and always made bad personal lifestyle choices. And even after this conviction, he's facing two more murder charges from 2012 which will probably have the same outcome. And then there's the incident where he shot some other poor bastard that offended him in the face a few years ago. This guy is bad to the bone.

He had the world by the 'nads, but apparently developed a warped sense of entitlement. What a waste of athletic talent.

The Prosecution did an excellent job. If there is an appeal it will no doubt go the same way.

Unlike the Ravens, when one of the Pat's players got taken in for murder they fired his ass.

We've had two separate threads here in the past couple months about jury duty. People have personal beliefs about serving or not serving. Regardless, I think this trial would have been fascinating to be a juror on.

When it took them so long to come back with a verdict I was afraid they were going to hang.

I find it interesting that people get worked up about cases like this.

Guilty or not, I just hope the jury was right and not wound up in the media circus that has surrounded this.

In reply to Toyman01:

OK, I'll take the bait. The only people I've seen worked up about this trial are the families of those directly involved. There were some pretty moving speeches by the victim's family after the verdict was announced yesterday. And rightly so. The Prosecution did their job. The jury did theirs based on the evidence presented. "Guilty beyond reasonable doubt." The legal experts have praised the jurors. And, of course, the media did their best to keep the trial in the news for the past six weeks or so.

This wasn't the OJ Simpson trial, and it took place in a small city in Massachusetts, not LA. But regardless, when you have another talented pro football player from one of the top NFL teams on trial for Murder One and now convicted and sentenced to life in prison without parole, it tends to get peoples' attention. That's current events, plain and simple.

kanaric wrote:

yamaha wrote: In reply to drummerfromdefleopard: Thanks to Massachusetts law, it automatically goes to appeal....yah know, gotta keep those lawyers cosy on Martha's Vineyard.

Appeals can be denied still though right?

Depends on what for IIRC.

In reply to DaveEstey:

You are aware that Bob Kraft's testimony was one of the main factors in the conviction. Hernandez provided Kraft with an account of where he was and what he was doing during the time that the murder occurred. Police didn't have a timeline of when Lloyd had been killed. Hernandez accounting for the timeframe (via lies of course) actually lead police to determining the time frame for when the murder occurred allowing them to search phone records, video security footage, atm and credit card transactions etc. of all parties involved leading up to the time table that Hernandez provided to Kraft.

I can only imagine having been in Kraft's shoes at that time as he had been in contact with police as well as team and league security officials prior to that meeting with Hernandez. Once Hernandez opened his mouth, callously lied to his employer while also providing a time frame of when he knew he'd have to be accounted for, which he only knew from having committed the murder, Kraft knew that he had done it. That had to be a very, very uncomfortable position for him to be in, as a man, a man of importance, and a man who had trusted Hernandez, been taken advantage of by him and now had to hold back his own personal rage in order to not illicit a response from the murderer who stood before him in an uncontrolled environment.

DaveEstey wrote: Unlike the Ravens, when one of the Pat's players got taken in for murder they fired his ass.

Usually when a Patriot does something wrong there is no penalty.