Also on Wednesday, Chief Medical Examiner Henry N. Nields conducted an autopsy on Hernandez, and came to the conclusion that his cause of death was asphyxiation by hanging.
The Medical Examiner's office released a statement saying the brain was being kept because it was part of the investigation into Hernandez's death and could require further analysis.
As Celebrity Insider readers know, Hernandez was discovered dead in his jail cell by corrections officers at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in MA around 3:05 a.m. on Wednesday.
Hernandez was said to have been in a single cell in a general population housing unit and had used various items to block his door before he was found. Officers attempted to save his life, then took him to a hospital, where a doctor pronounced him dead at 4:07 a.m.
Investigators found three handwritten notes near a Bible in Hernandez's jail cell, according to the statement.
The brain of former National Football League star and convicted murderer Aaron Hernandez will be turned over to a center for study about possible brain trauma, authorities said Thursday, after an attorney for his family accused them of "illegally" withholding it.
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy is a progressive degenerative disease of the brain found in people with a history of repetitive brain trauma, including football players, that can manifest itself as impaired judgment, depression and aggression.
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Hernandez was serving a life sentence for the 2013 death of Odin Loyd. But the judge declined to include recordings of other inmates' phone calls - something that George Leontire, a lawyer for Hernandez's fiancee, had requested.
"Aaron was looking forward to an opportunity for a second chance to prove his innocence" in an appeal of the 2013 verdict, Baez said. Confirmation of the news comes just one day after his body was found hanging in his cell Wednesday.
Whether he was aware of it or not, Aaron Hernandez may have greatly improved his family's financial situation by committing suicide.
"It is our position that they are holding Aaron Hernandez's brain illegally", he said.
The verse, one of the most quoted from the bible, states whoever believes in Jesus "should not perish, but have everlasting life".
Jose Baez, Hernandez's attorney who represented Hernandez in the trial in which the former Pro Bowl tight end was acquitted of a double murder, believes that Hernandez's brain is being held illegally. "Mr. Hernandez hanged himself utilizing a bedsheet that he attached to his cell window". They report the notes did not offer a reason for Hernandez's death, but did emphasize his love for his family.
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