"There's more ... WBZ also cites sources who say there's evidence Hernandez smoked synthetic marijuana shortly before his death".
Thompson is also calling for an impartial investigation into Hernandez's death. "Aaron was looking forward to an opportunity for a second chance to prove his innocence", Baez said in a statement. He was not charged in the 2012 killings until 2014. Notably the strangulation of a convicted pedophile priest by another inmate. It has more than 1,000 cells.
It is named for two former prisons workers killed in 1972 during an aborted escape attempt. Hernandez, 27, was later pronounced dead at a local hospital, according to a statement released by the DOC. It holds that is unfair to the defendant or to his or her survivors if a conviction is allowed to stand before they had a chance to clear their names on appeal, in case some kind or error or other injustice was determined to have occurred at trial, Martin Healy, chief legal counsel for the Massachusetts Bar Association, told the Associated Press.
At the time Hernandez, who had pleaded not guilty, was overcome with emotion as the verdict was read, moving his head from side to side, wiping his eyes and weeping.
What are the authorities saying about his death?
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"His agent actually texted me and said he would never kill himself". It was initially reported that Hernandez committed suicide by hanging himself with a bedsheet from a window in his cell. An autopsy has been scheduled to determine the exact cause of death. Quinn calls Hernandez's death "a shocking and sad end to a very tragic series of events that has negatively impacted a number of families".
Hernandez's death comes on the same day that President Donald Trump will host his former team the Patriots - which won the premier American football championship, the Superbowl, in early February - at the White House.
"I knew we had raised doubt throughout that case".
Authorities said the former New England Patriots tight end was being held at a maximum-security prison in MA, where he was serving a life sentence for killing his former friend, Odin Lloyd, a semi-professional football player who was dating his fiancee's sister. IN MEMORIAM: Celebrities and notable figures who have recently passed away Hernandez was moved to tears on Friday after he was acquitted of the 2012 fatal shootings of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado in Boston. Fallon said officials had no reason to believe Hernandez might take his life, and if they had had any such worries, he would have been transferred to a mental health unit. His lawyers were in the process of appealing the conviction when the former professional football player hanged himself in his cell at Shirley's Souza Baranowski Correctional Center.
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