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Aaron Hernandez’s defense attorneys are once again asking the trial court to prevent the prosecution from raising certain evidence against Hernandez during his murder trial in the Fall River Superior Court. In particular, FOX25 News<\/a> reports that the motion seeks to exclude eight separate instances of the defendant’s past behavior that have no direct relation to the investigation of the Odin Lloyd murder. but, if admitted, would likely portray Hernandez in a very negative light. Among these “prior bad acts<\/a>” include a TMZ photograph of Hernandez holding a gun, evidence of firearms and ammo located near Hernandez’s North Attleboro home, and evidence of the Hernandez’s involvement in the 2012 double murder from Suffolk County, a 2013 incident outside a Provide night club, and the Florida shooting of Alexander Bradley in 2013. <\/p>\n

Massachusetts Evidence Rules and Trial Practice <\/big><\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/em>Admission of evidence in a Massachusetts trial is regulated by common law – or case law, derived from past decisions of the state’s highest courts. These courts also look to some federal law, as well as the codified federal rules of evidence, for additional guidance. Because Massachusetts does not have a codified set of rules of its own, however, there is often greater room for argument on evidentiary issues in the state’s courts. <\/p>\n

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Aaron Hernandez’s defense attorneys are once again asking the trial court to prevent the prosecution from raising certain evidence against Hernandez during his murder trial in the Fall River Superior Court. 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