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Can tattoos be consider evidence of a crime the same as if a person makes a confession to the police? \u00a0As a Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer<\/a>, I would expect the judge to say that the tattoos cannot be admitted into evidence; however, this issue is before the Superior Court judge presiding over the Aaron Hernandez trial.<\/p>\n

Hernandez’s defense lawyers correctly argued that it would be unfairly prejudicial and speculative to allow the jury to infer the reasons why Hernandez may have his tattoos and attempt to infer intent.<\/p>\n

Aaron Hernandez now spends his time behind bars serving a life sentence for the June 2013 murder of Odin Lloyd. Additionally, he has been charged and is awaiting trial for the\u00a0double homicide\u00a0of Daniel de Abreau and Safiro Furtado. It is known that Hernandez has many tattoos on his body, and during a recent motion hearing prosecutors mentioned the potential link between the tattoos and the crimes that were committed- noting that the tattoos are “trophies of his killings”.<\/p>\n

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Can tattoos be consider evidence of a crime the same as if a person makes a confession to the police? \u00a0As a Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer, I would expect the judge to say that the tattoos cannot be admitted into evidence; however, this issue is before the Superior Court judge presiding over the Aaron Hernandez […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hernandez-trial"],"yoast_head":"\nCan Aaron Hernandez's tattoos be consider evidence Suffolk Superior Court Judge to rule in double murder trial — Massachusetts Criminal Defense Lawyer Blog — December 30, 2016<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Can tattoos be consider evidence of a crime the same as if a person makes a confession to the police? \u00a0As a Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer, I would — December 30, 2016\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/can-aaron-hernandezs-tattoos-consider-evidence-like-confession\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Can Aaron Hernandez's tattoos be consider evidence Suffolk Superior Court Judge to rule in double murder trial — Massachusetts Criminal Defense Lawyer Blog — December 30, 2016\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Can tattoos be consider evidence of a crime the same as if a person makes a confession to the police? 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