The lawyer for Carlos Ortiz says the one-time friend of Aaron Hernandez will "probably not" be a witness against the former NFL star during his trial in the killing of Odin Lloyd.
According to the Boston Herald, Ortiz, who is also charged as an accessory in the June 17 killing, may not be working with prosecutors as has been previously reported.
"I don't believe he's going to be a witness, to tell you the truth," attorney John J. Connors Jr. told the newspaper after a hearing for his client scheduled for this week was postponed. "If people are going on the assumption that because the court dates were moved around we're cooperating, or we're doing stuff because he's cooperating, that's not the case."
Instead, Connors insists the delay was caused because he has to go through stacks of evidence that were only turned over to him by prosecutors as part of the discovery process on Wednesday. He adds he is now concentrating on preparing a criminal defense for Ortiz.
Ortiz is charged as an accessory after the fact in the June murder of Lloyd in a deserted portion of a North Attleboro industrial park not far from Hernandez's mansion. Lloyd, a semi-pro football player who lived in Dorchester, was allegedly slain by Hernandez because he was angry with Lloyd for a conversation he had with some of Hernandez's rivals at a Boston nightclub.
Ortiz and another accused accomplice, Ernest Wallace, 44, who prosecutors say were with Hernandez that night, are due in Fall River Superior Court in January for a pretrial conference. Hernandez is being held without bail for Lloyd's killing and gun charges.
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