Gelston
05-09-2017, 08:14 PM
FALL RIVER — A Superior Court judge on Tuesday vacated the first-degree murder conviction of former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez in light of his suicide last month, but state prosecutors immediately vowed to fight the decision all the way to the state’s highest court.
In erasing Hernandez’s conviction for the 2013 shooting of Odin L. Lloyd, Superior Court Judge Susan Garsh cited a centuries-old law that states if a defendant dies while the conviction is on direct appeal it is as if the prosecution never happened.
Hernandez was found hanged inside his cell at the state’s maximum security prison in Shirley on April 19, five days after he was acquitted of two other murders.
In her decision, Garsh dismissed the prosecutor’s argument that the conviction against Hernandez should stand because the former tight end knew his suicide would lead to his conviction being vacated.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/05/09/battle-over-aaron-hernandez-conviction-heads-court/RmseaenLPwiODd6v12Vb8I/story.html
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In erasing Hernandez’s conviction for the 2013 shooting of Odin L. Lloyd, Superior Court Judge Susan Garsh cited a centuries-old law that states if a defendant dies while the conviction is on direct appeal it is as if the prosecution never happened.
Hernandez was found hanged inside his cell at the state’s maximum security prison in Shirley on April 19, five days after he was acquitted of two other murders.
In her decision, Garsh dismissed the prosecutor’s argument that the conviction against Hernandez should stand because the former tight end knew his suicide would lead to his conviction being vacated.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/05/09/battle-over-aaron-hernandez-conviction-heads-court/RmseaenLPwiODd6v12Vb8I/story.html
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