Missed it...link for appeal started.. anyone?
I maybe misspoke as I did not follow that trial, but going by what the analyst said doesn't matter. And if I understood correct it was an automatic appeal due to LWOP. JMHO
Legal Analyst: Hernandez suicide likely to affect Lloyd murder conviction
Updated: Apr 19, 2017 - 11:14 AM
“I know that’s going to be hard for a lot of people to swallow but if you die during an appeal in Massachusetts, the appeal of a criminal case, the conviction is vacated,” Legal analyst Peter Elikann said on FOX25 News.
Hernandez was in the process of appealing his murder conviction, which came with a life sentence with no possibility of parole.
“Clearly it’s a very, very narrow legal technicality,” Elikann said. “It’s not like you’ve been vindicated or people now realize you weren’t guilty or anything.”
He said everyone has the right to appeal and now Hernandez doesn’t have a way to exercise that right to appeal.
“Who knows if your conviction would have ultimately been vacated from the appeal,” he said. “So the idea is that since he doesn’t have the opportunity to appeal we’re not going to hold the conviction on you. And that’s how they look at it in Massachusetts law.”
http://www.fox25boston.com/news/leg...y-to-affect-lloyd-murder-conviction/514052235