Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez is due in court Wednesday and will be legally grappling with his former team in an effort to obtain medical records and psychological tests, according to CNN.com. Prior to that, though, Hernandez will have a separate court appearance on Monday that may determine when he will go on trial to answer charges that he orchestrated and carried out the murder of Odin Lloyd.
Hernandez's Lloyd trial is expected to take place in October, but there has been no date set in stone. He has pleaded not guilty in the killing of Lloyd, as well as another incident in which two men, Safiro Furtado and Daniel Abreu, were gunned down at a red light in Boston after an altercation with Hernandez at a night club.
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The main thrust of this court appearance is to have Hernandez moved from the Bristol House of Corrections to a new jail to shorten the commute for his defense attorneys. Hernandez's lawyers have also alleged that the Bristol sheriff running the prison has "collaborated... in an effort to generate evidence to be used against Hernandez." Prosecutors are denying that accusation, but haven't indicated great objection to a relocation of Hernandez.
On Wednesday, Hernandez and his legal team will fight for medical records from his days playing football with the Patriots; University of New Hampshire law professor Michael McCann told CNN he envisions that Hernandez's lawyers are going to attempt to paint a picture of the troubled Hernandez as mentally unable to carry out first degree murder.
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"My instinct is they try to argue he wasn't mentally capable of planning or intending any murder, and thus, first degree murder should be off the table," McCann said.
Other outstanding elements in the myriad legal cases involving Hernandez include the following: the ex-tight end is awaiting a ruling on a defense motion to have his murder charge regarding Lloyd thrown out based on prosecutors failing to meet the minimum requirements for probable cause.
Hernandez's lawyers have also tried to remove evidence acquired in a June 18 search of his house on the basis that their search was unlawful. In addition to an iPad and some cell phones, surveillance of Hernandez in the home with a gun in hand that has yet to be recovered is also part of the evidence culled from that search.
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