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Here’s a look at the life of former New England Patriots former Aaron Hernandez. He was convicted of the murder of semi-pro football player Odin Lloyd in 2015 and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Personal:
date of birth: 6 November 1989
death date: April 19, 2017
Birth Pribbon: Bristol, Connecticut
Birth nAME: Aaron Michael Hernandez
Father: Denise Hernandez, a high school custodian
Mother: Terry (Valentine) Hernandez, a school secretary
children: With Shayna Jenkins: Aviel Janelle Hernandez, November 6, 2012
Education: participated in University of Florida, 2007-2009
Other facts:
Odin Lloyd, The 27, played semi-pro football for the Boston Bandits and dated the sister of Hernandez’s fiancée, Shayna Jenkins.
Daniele de Abreu and Safiro Furtado were Cape Verde immigrants who worked as cleaners.
Hernandez was very close to his father, Denise, who died of an infection in 2006 during surgery for a hernia.
Timeline:
2009 – Hernandez becomes first Florida Gator to win John McKay Award, is awarded each year to the top collegiate tight end.
January 2010 , Announced his decision to quit his senior year in Florida and turn pro.
April 24, 2010 – Hernandez is selected in the fourth round of the NFL Draft new England Patriots,
April 27, 2010 , Due to allegations of multiple failed drug tests, Hernandez made a statement acknowledging a failed drug test while playing for Florida.
27 August 2012 – Signs a five-year contract extension with the New England Patriots, worth up to $40 million.
June 17, 2013 – Prosecutors say Odin Lloyd has been seen around 2:30 Hernandez is moving in a rented silver Nissan Altima with Hernandez’s friends, Carlos Ortiz and Ernest Wallace.
June 17, 2013 – A jogger finds a body full of gunshot wounds in an industrial park in North Attleboro, Massachusetts.
June 18, 2013 – Police searched Hernandez’s home, later identified as Lloyd, in connection with a body found in an industrial park a mile away.
June 22, 2013 – Police searched Hernandez’s home for the second time.
June 26, 2013 – Hernandez is arrested and charged with first-degree murder For Lloyd’s death. He also faces five weapons-related charges. He pleads not guilty and is held without bail. Hernandez was released by the New England Patriots less than two hours after his arrest.
August 1, 2013 – Hernandez’s cousin Tanya Singleton has been jailed for not testifying before a grand jury. Prosecutors say Wallace and Ortiz were at Singleton’s home the night Lloyd was murdered.
September 19, 2013 – Wallace pleads not guilty In the charge of an assistant after the fact of a murder.
September 27, 2013 – ortizo After the fact, Lloyd’s death was charged with a single count of ancillary to murder. He later pleads not guilty.
October 16, 2013 – jenkins, Hernandez’s fiancé pleads not guilty to the charges of perjury. Prosecutors allege that he lied to a grand jury and disposed of evidence.
November 27, 2013 – Hernandez’s attorney filed a response to a complaint filed by Alexander Bradley in federal court in Miami, saying Hernandez is invoking his Fifth Amendment rights. Bradley claims that Hernandez shot him in the face after an argument at a Miami strip club.
December 16, 2013 – Lloyd’s family files a wrongful death lawsuit Against Hernandez.
16 January 2014 – unsealed court documents Turns out that prosecutors suggested Hernandez may have pulled the trigger in an unsolved Boston double murder in July 2012. Victims Daniel d’Abreu and Safiro Furtado were killed when their 2003 BMW was shot. Another passenger was injured and two others were injured.
30 January 2014 – The Bristol County District Attorney’s Office accused Hernandez of using “coded message” Calls to the jailhouse to discuss allegations that he killed Lloyd. Prosecutors requested recordings of jailhouse calls and Hernandez’s visitors since Hernandez’s arrest in June 2013.
7 February 2014 – The judge denied prosecutors’ request for a recording of Hernandez’s jailhouse phone call.
February 25, 2014 , According to the Bristol County Sheriff’s Department, Hernandez is involved in “an altercation with another inmate”.
February 26, 2014 – De Abreu and Furtado’s families, two men, were shot and killed in Boston in 2012. file a wrongful death lawsuit against Hernandez; Each family is asking for $6 million.
11 April 2014 – Ortiz and Wallace, two friends seen in the car with Hernandez on June 17, 2013, were charged with and charged with Lloyd’s murder.
May 1, 2014 – Hernandez has been charged with assault and battery and threatened to cause bodily harm in connection with the dispute in the jail on February 25. He has also been charged with threatening to cause bodily harm in relation to a November incident in which he allegedly threatened someone working in prison.
15 May 2014 – Hernandez is indicted for the July 2012 murders of De Abreu and Furtado and was charged with two counts of first-degree murder, three counts of armed assault with attempt to murder, and one count of assault with a dangerous weapon and one count of battery.
28 May 2014 – In his conviction, Hernandez pleaded not guilty. Prosecutors allege that Hernandez killed de Abreu and Furtado after de Abreu bumped into Hernandez at a nightclub, causing the latter to spill his drink.,
7 July 2014 – A defense request is granted to take Hernandez to a prison near Boston. Their lawyers argue that the journey from their offices to the Bristol House of Corrections could take up to two hours due to traffic.
8 July 2014 – In a civil suit brought by the families of de Abreu and Furtad, a judge set aside Hernandez’s $5 million estate pending the outcome of his double murder trial. Therein lies the disputed $3.3 million Hernandez claim he owed the New England Patriots.
12 August 2014 – Singleton, Hernandez’s cousin, pleads guilty to contempt of court for refusing to testify before a grand jury. He has been sentenced to two years’ probation and one year of house arrest. He is kept at home because he has cancer.
23 September 2014 – Singleton is convicted of contempt of court and sentenced to two years in prison. He was sentenced for a similar offense last month.
26 January 2015 – The jury is selected.
29 January 2015 – Opening Statement by Prosecutors and Defense in Fall River, Massachusetts. Prosecutors: William McCauley, Patrick Baumberg, Roger Mitchell and Brian Griffin. Defense Team: Michael Fee, James Sultan and Charles Rankin.
10 February 2015 – The trial judge issues a ruling granting immunity to Jenkins, Hernandez’s fiancee.
11 February 2015 – A second juror has been dismissed from the trial. The jury is now made up of 10 women and six men.
15 April 2015 – Hernandez found guilty of first-degree murder in Lloyd’s death, and is sentenced to life imprisonment in prison without the possibility of parole. He has also been convicted of unlawful possession of a firearm and illegal possession of ammunition, and his sentences range from two and a half years to three years and six months to three years, respectively.
11 May 2015 – Hernandez is In 2013, he was indicted in Massachusetts for intimidation of a witness in the Bradley shooting. Prosecutors believe Bradley witnessed the murders of de Abreu and Furtado, and say Bradley was shot by Hernandez after he made remarks about the double homicide.
19 May 2015 – Hernandez is reportedly disciplined for agreeing to be on the lookout As for an inmate who went to another prisoner’s cell at the Souza-Baranovsky Correctional Center, a law enforcement source with knowledge of the incident tells CNN.
21 May 2015 – hernandez plea of not guilty To witness intimidation in the Bradley shooting case.
3 December 2015 – According to media reports, Hernandez is found in his prison cell with a homemade knife or a leg, and is taken to a different part of the prison.
12 February 2016 – Hernandez settled a lawsuit filed by Bradley, who said he was shot by a football player after a fight in a bar. The terms of the settlement are not released to the public.
12 May 2016 – Wallace is acquitted of manslaughter but is convicted of abetment to murder after the fact. In the case of Lloyd’s shooting death in 2013. Wallace has been sentenced to 4 and a half to 7 years in prison.
April 14, 2017 – is found not guilty In connection with the murder in the deaths of Furtado and D’Abru outside a nightclub in July 2012. Of the eight counts that Hernandez faced, he was found guilty of just one: illegal possession of a firearm.
April 19, 2017 – Hernandez is Found hanging in the jail cell at 3:05 am. He was pronounced dead at 4:07 a.m., an apparent suicide, according to the Massachusetts Department of Correction.
April 20, 2017 – Hernandez’s family announces they plan to donate their brain to scientists to determine whether he had Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), degenerative brain disease linked to many NFL athletes. According to the Worcester County District Attorney’s Office, the brain will be released to the Boston University CTE Center for further investigation.
May 9, 2017 – A Massachusetts judge vacated Hernandez’s murder sentence, Hernandez’s defense attorneys asked the court to follow a legal rule called “abatement ab initio,” or abatement, in which convictions are dismissed if a defendant dies before hearing his appeal.
September 21, 2017 – Attorney Jose Baez told reporters that the results of tests on Hernandez’s brain showed a “serious case” of CTE., Baez also announced a federal lawsuit filed on behalf of Hernandez’s daughter against both the NFL and the New England Patriots.
13 October 2018 – The Boston Globe’s Spotlight team released a six-part series on Hernandez. “Gladiator: Aaron Hernandez and Football Inc.,” is based on recordings of interviews, thousands of court and government records, and nearly 30 jailhouse phone calls between Hernandez and others, writes the Globe. Along with the editorial series, the Spotlight team also released its first multi-episode podcast as a companion to the story.
March 13, 2019 – The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court unanimously found that Hernandez’s murder sentence was reinstated, finding that the legal rule should be abolished.
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