Aaron Hernandez, once a star tight end for the New England Patriots, is going to spend the rest of his life in jail. According to Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson, he thinks the ex-football star will get by just fine. He also thinks fellow inmates would be wise to avoid "disrespecting" him.
"He'll probably do fine. He'll be able to talk his way through everything," Hodgson said. "If someone's trying to outwardly and aggressively disrespect him, that could create a problem."
Hernandez was convicted of first-degree murder in the shooting death of Odin Lloyd, a former friend an semi-pro football player who was dating the sister of Hernandez's fiancée at the time of death.
Regarding Hernandez's inability to deal with "disrespect," he's also still facing charges in a 2012 double-homicide in Boston. Hernandez is accused of pulling up alongside another vehicle waiting at a red light and opening fire into it, killing Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado. The murder allegedly stemmed from a dispute inside a nightclub in which the men spilled a drink on Hernandez and then failed to apologize. Some authorities believe Lloyd knew about that incident, and was killed as a way to silence him.
Hodgson believes Hernandez is well-suited to prison, and noted that he didn't react very negatively to the murder verdict. When staff transferred him from Bristol County Jail to a state prison, Hernandez was warm to them.
"I'll miss you guys, but they got it wrong," Hodgson relayed. "He didn't really have much of a change in his demeanor. He pretty much still had a swagger in his step."
While Hernandez was stone-faced and silent throughout the proceedings, Hodgson said he has the gift of gab inside the prison walls.
"He would make every effort to get extra sandwiches," Hodgson said. "He would just try to convince the officers to give him more than what they otherwise could get."
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