A Massachusetts defense attorney is pronouncing the Bristol County District Attorney's office's recent indictment of alleged Aaron Hernandez co-conspirators Carlos Ortiz and Ernest Wallace as a win for the former NFL vet.
All three now face murder charges in the execution-style killing of Odin Lloyd last June, with Hernandez reportedly having been fingered as the triggerman. But now some are speculating the state's approach to pursuing the case may be at the point of being ready to come back to haunt them.
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"I think they were going to go with the theme that this was a rush to arrest Hernandez," Massachusetts-based criminal attorney Michael DelSignore told the SportingNews.com of the former New England Patriots defense team. "I think this enhances their argument that it was a rush to arrest, then investigate later. They'll say, 'now they the prosecutors are gonna ask you, the jury, to help figure it out.'''
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In DelSignore's estimation, the new indictments raise issues about how prosecutors perhaps overzealously targeted Hernandez based on his celebrity status. "From the get-go, they probably could have charged all three with murder, but they focused on Hernandez because of his celebrity status," he said. "They had the video with him with the gun, and they had all those (phone and text) messages.''
Initially, prosecutors were hinting they even expected both Ortiz and Wallace to be witnesses against Hernandez, by now even that one-time strategy may be proving to be an issue for them.
"They're probably not getting the cooperation they'd hoped to get,'' said DelSignore, adding "they don't seem to have a great case against anybody, but the best case they still have is against Hernandez.''
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