"No one is going to stand in the way of the family's wishes for Boston University to have Aaron Hernandez's brain".
The former New England Patriots tight end's family has donated his body to science for the study of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative disease caused by blows to the head.
A lawyer for former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez has accused the MA medical examiner's office of reneging on a deal to turn over the athlete's brain to a Boston laboratory a day after he was found dead in his prison cell. 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 degenerative disease is believed to be caused by repeated head trauma, and has been found in famed National Football League players including Junior Seau and Dave Duerson.
UPDATE: The Worcester District Attorney's Office released a statement Thursday, after Baez's press conference, ruling Hernandez's death a suicide.
Authorities say Hernandez died by hanging himself in his MA prison cell.
Those cryptic details emerged Thursday as authorities ruled Hernandez's death a suicide and turned his body over to a funeral home so his family could lay him to rest.
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Hernandez was serving a life sentence after he was convicted of first-degree murder in 2015 in the 2013 shooting death of Odin Lloyd in North Attleboro.
Baez said the family will be seeking an independent autopsy.
The former National Football League stars family wants wants to donate his brain to Boston University's for a study.
He was pronounced dead about an hour later at UMass-Memorial Health Alliance Hospital in Leominster, according to a statement from the Massachusetts Department of Correction.
Hernandez was found dead early Wednesday, hanging by a bedsheet in his cell at the Souza Baranowski Correctional Center.
Aaron, Baez correctly states, was not on suicide watch, and "looking forward to an opportunity for a second chance to prove his innocence".
Hernandez's fiancée brought their 4-year-old daughter, Avielle, to court two days before Hernandez was acquitted.
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