Football fans who have shied away from following the Aaron Hernandez murder trials may have a reason to get interested. According to reports, 33 pages of textmessages between the former tight end and New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick have been handed by prosecutors over to Hernandez's defense lawyers, and could be used as evidence in the Odin Lloyd murder case.
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The Boston Herald reported that other Patriots-related information has been turned over to the defense team, including a police interview with Patriots' owner Robert Kraft, police statements from Kraft and Belichick, and interviews with director of player personnel Nick Caserio and strength and conditioning coaches Harold Nash and Moses Cabrera.
Along with this news comes a potentially rough blow to Hernandez's defense. Fall River Justice Center Judge E. Susan Garsh has denied the defense's efforts to have home surveillance footage used against Hernandez in court. Garsh ruled that the confiscation of the footage "was justified by the likelihood that it would reveal the identities of the individuals with Hernandez and Lloyd." She also said that the video would help "provide a timeline of their movements. Footage from the interior of the residence would likely do the same."
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At least one piece of footage has been leaked in the media, showing the former tight end holding a handgun. That footage is supposedly before Hernandez left to pick up Lloyd the night of his murder; the footage also allegedly shows Hernandez with the gun after the murder is believed to have been committed.
Hernandez's lawyers had also moved to exclude evidence taken from a cell phone seized from Hernandez's North Attleborough mansion, but that was also denied. Garsh stated in her ruling that evidence from that phone would likely contain "contain evidence of communications with Lloyd in the period just before his death."
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