GUILTY MA - Aaron Hernandez, New England Patriots player, charged with homicides #4

[SStarr33]

Six Essential Reads About Aaron Hernandez

http://www.boston.com/news/local/ma...story.html?s_campaign=bcom:socialflow:twitter

 

[aa9511]

Liam Martin/Staff
@LiamWCVB

#AaronHernandez is now at MCI Cedar Junction. He'll eventually end up at MCI-Shirley. #WCVB http://pbs.twimg.com/media/CCqDFZOXIAA2OEg.png

http://images.scribblelive.com/2015/4/15/d1d211f7-fe0b-41ee-8411-d19c1537b3c8_800.png

statement from dept. of corrections above

Shirley is the one that's about 1.5 miles from Gillette Statdium, I read that on a Boston paper website earlier. And yes, the writer said that sometimes on game days the sound of the game can be heard there.

 

[ATasteOfHoney]

Sounds like they took their job seriously. So glad his last swagger is to prison for a LWOP sentence!!!! Great news. First arias, then hernandez, next that tsarnaev. And I think a verdict came in on the Bali case of poor murdered Sheila Mack. Let me take a look!

Gitana---following the same cases as you & my sentiments exactly (as usual).

 

[ATasteOfHoney]

Shirley is the one that's about 1.5 miles from Gillette Statdium, I read that on a Boston paper website earlier. And yes, the writer said that sometimes on game days the sound of the game can be heard there.

Wow----the agony and hatred he will feel about the glory of the football hot-shot life he used to have compared with the dismal prison life that will be his reality---while the game plays on!!
Not saying I feel sorry for AH but the roar of the crowds in the distance will impact him!

 

[aa9511]

Anyone know when Ortiz and or Wallace will be tried? What is the next interesting trial you are going to be watching? Great group of trial watchers here.

I dunno, but I want to watch Hernandez double-murder trial too when it happens. I guess that is the next one on my list. I'll probably check on here for Ortiz and Wallace trial updates.

 

[katydid23]

Shirley is the one that's about 1.5 miles from Gillette Statdium, I read that on a Boston paper website earlier. And yes, the writer said that sometimes on game days the sound of the game can be heard there.

That is fantastic. I hope he is out in his concrete 'exercise' pen and hears the cheering crowd, a mile away, and knows he will never be their 'hero' again.

 

[aa9511]

On Anderson Cooper's show he had a headline, Aaron Hernandez says "I didn't do it, they got it wrong." LOL. yeah, yeah, Aaron that's what they all say.....

 

[katydid23]

I LOVED seeing the confidence in that jury today!!!!! :jail:

And as much as I whined and complained about that Judge---:judge: ----- I have to admit that NOW I appreciate her. Because these defense attorneys are going to have a hard time winning any appeal issues. "Harsh' Garsch bent over backwards for them during the trial. What can they complain about now?

 

[katydid23]

Apparently he started yapping to the guards who were escorying him down the hall and back to his cell. He said " they got it wrong--I didn't do it..."

TOO LATE NIMROD. You should have taken the stand with that statement. Day late, 40 million dollars short, dude...:yes:

 

[aa9511]

That is fantastic. I hope he is out in his concrete 'exercise' pen and hears the cheering crowd, a mile away, and knows he will never be their 'hero' again.

Yup. I think with Aaron he was a big manipulator. In the same article (sorry I can't remember where I saw it), or maybe a different article I don't know, the writer said that Robert Kraft said that after he signed the $40 mil contract, he made a big donation to one of Kraft's charities. Kraft told him, no you really don't have to do that. AH said, no, I want to.

Uh, okaaayy.

Yet he kills guys right and left with no thought at all. Like it's nothing.

I think AH was a big manipulator his whole life, that's how he got out of previous issues. He must have had things going on even in high school. At Florida, today on the news someone with a source at one of the teams who scouted AH for NFL, said that they got reports from ppl at Floriday saying that every problem that happened, AH was part of it.

So how did he get away with it for so long?

He was a manipulator and he used those skills as well as his football talent to get away with it. And also shame on the Florida coach for letting him get away with it there.

 

[aa9511]

It feels nice to have a jury verdict actually go your way. I have had so many disappointments following these trials. If I counted them up, probably at least half or more have been acquitted. Or maybe it just seems that way in my mind.

 

[SStarr33]

Another great Dan Wetzel article:

True grace: Odin Lloyd's mother forgives Aaron Hernandez for murdering her son

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/true-g...ernandez-for-murdering-her-son-195158444.html

 

[TexMex]

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/04/15/us/where-aaron-hernandez-will-serve-life-prison-sentence/

About 90% of the inmates in the maximum-security prison are locked in their cells for 19 hours a day, said Walker, the legal advocate.

"It's pretty grim," Walker said.

The cells
Souza has slightly larger cells than most other Massachusetts prisons, but not by much, Walker said.

Even so, the cells are stark, small rooms of painted cinder-block walls with metal fixtures: a bunk mounted to the wall, a toilet and sink combination, a small writing shelf attached to the wall, and a nearby small stool affixed to the floor, Walker said.

There's also a shelf for a small television, which must have a clear back for easy inspection, Walker said.

With the exception of the TV, which inmates can buy for under $200, all furnishings are metal and bolted down to keep inmates from throwing them, she said.

 

[TexMex]

http://www.rollingstone.com/culture...-from-nfl-star-to-convicted-murderer-20150415

 

[TexMex]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/04/16/is-aaron-hernandez-a-psychopath.html

But Professor Kent Kiehl, author of the Psychopath Whisper, who’s spent more than two decades interviewing diagnosed psychopaths behind bars, agreed to weigh in on a few of my questions as I compared Hernandez to the psychopath standards.

In general, says Kiehl, psychopaths have a lack of empathy, they’re hot headed, nomadic, they make up stories, and their actions are often carried out without any forethought or reflection.

Hernandez can’t have given Lloyd’s murder too much thought—he gave police surveillance from his home with videos of him holding what appeared to be the murder weapon. And even though Lloyd was his friend—or “bluntmaster,” as he was called—he can’t have felt too much remorse. The next day, Hernandez let his co-conspirators hold his baby daughter.

But as much as Hernandez seems to fit the psychopath bill, I thought there were a couple issues that might rule him out.

According to Cleckley and Hare, psychopaths have trouble following a life plan or holding a job. Hernandez had one of the most coveted jobs in the world–a $40 million contract with one of the best teams in NFL history.

 

[SStarr33]

Lisa Kraus Edwards ‏@LAKEdwards 4m4 minutes ago

Spending the morning with the #AaronHernandez jury. Very impressed with the seriousness, thoughtfulness of their approach.

This scares me. Don't want appeal issues.

 

[aa9511]

Let's just be glad the killer is behind bars forever. The trial was fair and appeal hopefully won't go through. Also, Ortiz nor Wallace testified in AH trial so appeals court can't go back and say, oh they lied so we need to free AH. (you know, the cases where the star witnesses later change their story and claim they were lying during the original trial). None of that can happen in the appeals because they did not even testify. Yay!

 

[aa9511]

Lisa Kraus Edwards ‏@LAKEdwards 4m4 minutes ago

Spending the morning with the #AaronHernandez jury. Very impressed with the seriousness, thoughtfulness of their approach.

This scares me. Don't want appeal issues.

Are they going to show it on the news later? I don't know who this Lisa person is.

 

[geevee]

There's a short video in this article of AH being escorted into his palatial, many-thousand-square-foot new residence:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...rted-to-maximum-security-prison-10182037.html
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After all the time spent with this trial I missed the verdict announcement by only a few minutes, but by the time I got back home the videos had just been posted so that was alright, still would have liked to have seen it live. Very thankful the jury saw through the defense's obfuscations and the judge's refusal to allow certain pieces of evidence to be admitted, I feel pretty sure if they'd seen the 'NFL' text Odin sent they probably would have gone with premeditated as well as the cruel theory. Maybe some of them just didn't think, after seeing the gas station video of them being obviously wasted that they were capable of premeditating the muder, I don't know, but very glad they did find him guilty of the highest murder charge, which he so richly earned.

 

[Queen Bee]

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/f...-fall-nfl-stardom-ends-jail-article-1.2186970

Aaron Hernandez's fall from NFL stardom with New England Patriots ends in a jail cell after guilty verdict

Now the world saw the pictures of those big, football hands shackled on this day. And after Hernandez was led out of the courtroom, the prosecutor, McCauley, talked about all the people who had helped get this conviction. And then he was talking about hands, too.
"A thousand hands touched this case," McCauley said.

This time the charge against the football star, after all the charges out of the NFL lately, was the main event, which means murder. Another football star we thought we knew. Now we know.
(much more at link)