{"id":1307,"date":"2017-04-14T17:13:46","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T21:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.massachusettscriminaldefenselawyerblog.com\/?p=1307"},"modified":"2017-04-14T17:13:46","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T21:13:46","slug":"aaron-hernandez-found-not-guilty-boston-murder-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/aaron-hernandez-found-not-guilty-boston-murder-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Hernandez found not guilty in Boston Murder Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Hernandez was found not guilty of a double murder from 2012 in Boston. \u00a0The key piece of evidence leading to the not guilty verdict was that Alexander Bradley the only one directly linking Hernandez to the murder could not be trusted. \u00a0There was evidence that he was lying, manipulative, had a long criminal history including gun charges and was a known drug dealer.<\/p>\n<p>The Commonwealth did everything it could to distance itself from Bradley and in closing argument tried to suggest that Bradley&#8217;s testimony was not really necessary for a conviction. \u00a0But in the end, the jury could not determine whether Bradley fired the shots. \u00a0Given that Bradley had a gun related incident after his immunity deal, the jury concluded it was equally likely that Bradley fired the shots and Hernandez was nervous that he was associated with a shooting.<\/p>\n<p>In his closing argument, the prosecutor spent about an hour addressing what the evidence was and how strong it was even without the testimony of Alexander Bradley. \u00a0The prosecutor made compelling points in closing such as why was the car used in the murder stored at Hernandez&#8217;s cousin&#8217;s house, how would Bradley have known what the victim&#8217;s in the car would have claimed was said when the shots were fired. \u00a0But Bradley claimed that Hernandez threw the murder weapon out the window of the car, which was not supported by the evidence. \u00a0The prosecutor tried to argue that inconsistencies in the evidence indicate trustworthiness, but in the end for the jury it was reasonable doubt.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/aaron-hernandez-found-not-guilty-boston-murder-trial\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Aaron Hernandez found not guilty in Boston Murder Trial\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Hernandez was found not guilty of a double murder from 2012 in Boston. \u00a0The key piece of evidence leading to the not guilty verdict was that Alexander Bradley the only one directly linking Hernandez to the murder could not be trusted. \u00a0There was evidence that he was lying, manipulative, had a long criminal history [&hellip;]<\/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-1307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hernandez-trial"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Aaron Hernandez found not guilty in Boston Murder Trial &#8212; 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