The fiancée of Aaron Hernandez, the former New England Patriots star tight end accused of killing a former associate named Odin Lloyd, is seeking to have perjury charges against her dismissed.
Prosecutors in the Lloyd case allege that Jenkins is responsible for disposing of the murder weapon used to kill Lloyd, which remains unrecovered, and lying to a grand jury about her role in hiding it.
Prosecutors claim to have strong evidence against Jenkins
Jenkins is recorded on tape removing a large trash bag from Hernandez's basement that contained a big, "rigid" object that may have been a lock box or safe. She placed it in the trunk of her car and drove away, returning more than a half hour later without the bag.
At her arraignment prosecutors said, "She was asked what she did to the item that Mr. Hernandez instructed her to get rid of; she repeatedly told the grand jury that she couldn't remember, she didn't know, she'd thrown it in a dumpster, and she couldn't tell anybody where it was."
Jenkins is also accused of lying about not remembering conversations she had with Hernandez specifically about the Lloyd slaying.
Jenkins' lawyers are fighting back against the prosecutors now, claiming that the prosecutors didn't present enough evidence to charge her. Jenkins' legal team also said the ''integrity of the grand jury was impaired" when the prosecutors ''set out to deliberately charge her with perjury.'' She was supposed to appear in court last week but had that hearing moved back to August 22. Lloyd was dating Jenkins' sister at the time of his death.
Hernandez, meanwhile, is facing a 2012 double murder rap in Boston along with the Lloyd charges. He's accused of shooting two men, Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado, in a drive by shooting after exchanging words in a nightclub.
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