Aaron Hernandez committed suicide in jail

[TheReal_ND]

Something is not right here at all

[heydaralon]

Cute but not contributing to any conversation involving possible CT angles. Now fuck off with your wannabe edgy remarks.

You shitpost randomly in all kinds of threads including this one.

[Okeefenokee]

Ugggh,

Under Massachusetts law, Aaron Hernandez suicide voids murder conviction

Aaron Hernandez was found dead in his prison cell on Wednesday morning after hanging himself using bedsheets and, under Massachusetts law, that means the murder conviction that sent him to prison in the first place has been voided.

Hernandez was still in the process of appealing his 2014 conviction of murdering Odin Lloyd, which means a legal principle dating back to English common law called “abatement ab initio” applies to his case. “Ab initio” translates to “from the beginning” and chief legal counsel to the Massachusetts Bar Association Michael Healy told the Boston Globe that the principle reverts a case to its start if the convicted party dies before the appeals process has concluded.

Healy said that civil proceedings in other cases involving the death of the convicted party were complicated because evidence established in the criminal trial cannot be used to make the civil case.

“Unfortunately, in the Odin Lloyd matter, for the family, there won’t be any real closure,” Healy said. “Aaron Hernandez will go to his death an innocent man.”

Not all states still have “abatement ab initio” on the books and some eliminated it after the death of those convicted in high profile cases. Healy said it would not be surprising if a Massachusetts legislator introduced legislation to eliminate it in the state in light of Hernandez’s suicide.

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[heydaralon]

Ugggh,

Under Massachusetts law, Aaron Hernandez suicide voids murder conviction

Aaron Hernandez was found dead in his prison cell on Wednesday morning after hanging himself using bedsheets and, under Massachusetts law, that means the murder conviction that sent him to prison in the first place has been voided.

Hernandez was still in the process of appealing his 2014 conviction of murdering Odin Lloyd, which means a legal principle dating back to English common law called “abatement ab initio” applies to his case. “Ab initio” translates to “from the beginning” and chief legal counsel to the Massachusetts Bar Association Michael Healy told the Boston Globe that the principle reverts a case to its start if the convicted party dies before the appeals process has concluded.

Healy said that civil proceedings in other cases involving the death of the convicted party were complicated because evidence established in the criminal trial cannot be used to make the civil case.

“Unfortunately, in the Odin Lloyd matter, for the family, there won’t be any real closure,” Healy said. “Aaron Hernandez will go to his death an innocent man.”

Not all states still have “abatement ab initio” on the books and some eliminated it after the death of those convicted in high profile cases. Healy said it would not be surprising if a Massachusetts legislator introduced legislation to eliminate it in the state in light of Hernandez’s suicide.

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Not too much of a victory. He died hanging from a bed sheet in a jail cell. I guess he's not guilty on a technicality but he's guilty in the court of public opinion. From the civil suit perspective he won, but he won't be around to enjoy the fruits of it.

[Speaker to Animals]

Nah. The Patriots were withholding millions of dollars from him because he was convicted of this crime and didn't complete the contract or something along those lines. But because he died and he is by default exonerated, they have to pay out to his estate. After his victims' families get the majority of that, Hernandez' family will at least get something. He might have just tried to make it right somehow.

[The Conservative]

Ugggh,

Under Massachusetts law, Aaron Hernandez suicide voids murder conviction

Aaron Hernandez was found dead in his prison cell on Wednesday morning after hanging himself using bedsheets and, under Massachusetts law, that means the murder conviction that sent him to prison in the first place has been voided.

Hernandez was still in the process of appealing his 2014 conviction of murdering Odin Lloyd, which means a legal principle dating back to English common law called “abatement ab initio” applies to his case. “Ab initio” translates to “from the beginning” and chief legal counsel to the Massachusetts Bar Association Michael Healy told the Boston Globe that the principle reverts a case to its start if the convicted party dies before the appeals process has concluded.

Healy said that civil proceedings in other cases involving the death of the convicted party were complicated because evidence established in the criminal trial cannot be used to make the civil case.

“Unfortunately, in the Odin Lloyd matter, for the family, there won’t be any real closure,” Healy said. “Aaron Hernandez will go to his death an innocent man.”

Not all states still have “abatement ab initio” on the books and some eliminated it after the death of those convicted in high profile cases. Healy said it would not be surprising if a Massachusetts legislator introduced legislation to eliminate it in the state in light of Hernandez’s suicide.

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Welcome to Mass, where we fuck up laws just for fun!

Really though, it doesn't matter, the bastard is dead... he hung himself. Guilty in the eyes of the law or not, it doesn't matter. Justice was served by Hernandez's own hands.

[Ex-California]

Nah. The Patriots were withholding millions of dollars from him because he was convicted of this crime and didn't complete the contract or something along those lines. But because he died and he is by default exonerated, they have to pay out to his estate. After his victims' families get the majority of that, Hernandez' family will at least get something. He might have just tried to make it right somehow.

Fuck, it all makes sense now.

This is why I love you guys

[StCapps]

Something tells me that committing suicide didn't save his contract, especially in this scenario, if it did then Patriots should fire their lawyers, that's a next level fuck up.

[TheReal_ND]

Yeah, committing suicide is a good way to fuck up contracts. I'm not sure but I think life insurance is automatically nixed and pensions go into arbitration.

This does seem like the most likely explanation though.

[Ex-California]

Apparently he's gay

http://nypost.com/2017/04/21/aaron-hern ... ng-secret/

"Why Hernandez threw everything away to leave his friend riddled with six bullets in the gravel of a suburban Boston industrial park has remained a mystery, even after an extensive 2015 trial.

Cops long believed that Lloyd had incriminating information on Hernandez that the player didn’t want to get out.

Law-enforcement sources told the Boston Globe shortly after the player’s arrest that Hernandez feared Lloyd would rat him out in a previous double murder in 2012 — for which he was acquitted last week, just five days before the suicide.

Prosecutors only alluded at trial that Lloyd had said something to Hernandez just before his murder that destroyed his trust. A motive was never firmly established, something his lawyers noted in closing arguments.

But multiple law-enforcement officials directly involved in the Lloyd murder case now believe that the ex-pal knew about Hernandez’s bisexuality and the Patriots player feared it would be made public, Newsweek said.

Lloyd “had information the football star did not want out — that he was bisexual,” the mag said.

A co-defendant in Lloyd’s murder privately confirmed to detectives that Lloyd knew Hernandez’s secret, Newsweek reported.

Co-defendant Ernest Wallace told cops that Lloyd had slurred Hernandez as a “schmoocher,” or someone who is gay, before his death, the report said.

Wallace himself referred to Hernandez as a “limp wrist” during a taped jailhouse visit with the former player’s incarcerated cousin, the report said.

Hernandez’s alleged longtime male lover was also interviewed extensively by investigators after Lloyd’s murder and was forced to testify before a grand jury, Newsweek reported."