Patriots TE Hernandez in big trouble

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Just heard breaking news on the radio on the way to work that he was found hung in his cell a bit after 3am.

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https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2...self-prison/Hkp9wdGcZImoMBomJLMNVJ/story.html

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Don't think it's right to celebrate his suicide, but I had that impulse. People who are so psychologically primitive that they are destructive to society without necessity are not happy inside. Someday I hope for a healthier society.
 
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TheVrolok

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I appreciate the tragedy of the situation at large, but this dude, at least from my limited understanding, was not redeemable.
 

WaTaGuMp

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Loser should of killed himself before doing what he did, not to mention the money he cost taxpayers after the fact.
 

momeNt

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Loser should of killed himself before doing what he did, not to mention the money he cost taxpayers after the fact.

It's possible that he was willing to accept the consequences of the murder(s) he actually did commit, but fought the conviction on the one he didn't commit. So once he was acquitted, he figured his fight was over and he was ready to accept that his life was over?
 

WaTaGuMp

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It's possible that he was willing to accept the consequences of the murder(s) he actually did commit, but fought the conviction on the one he didn't commit. So once he was acquitted, he figured his fight was over and he was ready to accept that his life was over?

His lawyer said he was going to fight the one he was convicted of. Either way, no loss felt from me.
 

GagHalfrunt

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countdown to murder conspiracies in 3, 2 . . .

I'm not a whackadoodle conspiracy theorist and would never even consider that anything happened other than him acting alone. But man, the timing on this is insane. He does it right after winning a giant victory and opening up at least the faintest glimmer of hope that maybe a one in 10,000 legal miracle get him out? Maybe getting out of his cell to attend the trial was the only thing keeping him going and without that little break he had discovered there was nothing left to live for.
 

GagHalfrunt

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wtf why now?!
of all the times he could have done it, why suicide after you've been AQUITTED of 2 murders?

Maybe he had a suicide note tattooed on his neck and they just have not been able to read it yet due to the bruising.
 

Ns1

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well this is interesting

Aaron Hernandez died innocent of murder, despite the conviction for which he was serving a life sentence.

It may be technical, but it's true. Aaron was convicted in 2015 of murdering Odin Lloyd. He was serving a life sentence when he was found hanging from his cell early Wednesday morning.

Under Massachusetts law, when a person dies while a criminal case is on appeal, the death effectively erases all the criminal proceedings ... it's as if Aaron was never arrested, never tried, never convicted.

The logic is that a person is not only entitled to a fair trial, they're entitled to appeal a conviction, and the process is not cemented until the appeal process is exhausted.

And there's more. Aaron is being sued civilly for wrongful death by Lloyd's family. When Aaron was alive, the family could use the criminal conviction to automatically establish liability ... but now they can't. They'll have to retry the murder allegation in front of a new jury, without Aaron present.
 

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I guess he was only a tough guy with a gun in his hand. He so soft, a lemon meringue pie would have lasted longer in prison than him.

That's not necessary. By all accounts he was a deeply disturbed human being. And one who very legitimately may be better off dead than released to society. But he was a human being nonetheless.