Aaron Hernandez’s Last Chance
Good riddance you scumbag.
Hernandez is guilty, he’s going away for life without parole in a prison 1 mile from Gillette stadium so that for every home Pats game he’s going to be able to hear the roaring crowds cheering for the team he played on, from the fans who have disowned him. That is satisfying. I honestly expected this first trial to end with a not guilty verdict. No murder weapon and a bunch of circumstantial evidence and a lot of people wondering if the prosecutors pushed too hard with the charges. I figured they’d get him on the gun charge and that would be it, but it looks like I was wrong. It seemed like his defense attorneys didn’t build a very good defense (everyone’s making “bluntmaster” jokes). I thought he was guilty, and I’m glad the jury thought so too. He still hasn’t even faced the charges on the double murder, which has stronger evidence. Not like it matters now, not like he’s going anywhere.
The fact this triggered an automatic appeal is ridiculous. He hasn’t got a hope in all nine circles of getting out of it – any of it, especially with the drive-by charges pending.
Lock the evil bastard up, dissolve the key in alien blood, let him rot to the sound of Foxboro.
I agree with the locking the evil bastard up, but even the guilty deserve an appeal.
Is Sexy Rexy in this comic the Rex Grossman lookalike in the background?
(Insert the usual fart jokes here)
Hopefully the double murder charge will give him the death penalty (same goes for Lawrence Phillips with the murder of his cell mate)
Then again, having to hear fans cheering on your former team may make Hernandez feel guilt, but I doubt he’ll even care. At least the quick and deserved verdict shows that justice is blind to celebrity and will give everyone, no matter who they are, a correct sentence.
Nope. Massachusetts is a fairly liberal state – no death penalty. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is only facing it because the Boston Marathon bombing was tried in a federal court, which trumps state law.
Huh, I never knew how complicated it all was. After the supreme court ruling in 1972, Massachusetts added the right to enforce the death penalty in its constitution so that it would always retain that power. However, the bill that authorized the use of the death penalty for murder 1 was struck down by the supreme court in 1984 because it was worded so that defendants pleading guilty could avoid the death penalty. There are no bills in Massachusetts that currently authorize the death penalty as punishment.
Hernandez still should get the death penalty, same with Phillips
Just put Hernandez in a cell with Phillips. That’s pretty much a death sentence for at least one of them
So he can get an insanely expensive series of appeals that do nothing but cost the taxpayers of Massachusetts more money? Let him rot forever, it’s actually cheaper than the death penalty.
@Dan Marino
Massachusetts abolished the death penalty in 1984
and hasn’t executed anyone since 1947 either
I dunno. I’m pretty confident that it /does/ matter that he was found guilty here, for a variety of reasons. When he goes on trial for the double murder, all kinds of things could happen, and even if he’s found guilty there, having this in their pocket means that a screw up on that that gets it over turned means he’s still not going free. Though I honestly expect that he’ll get a retrial based on utter incompetence– it was disputed throughout the trial that Hernandez was even there, and then his lawyers, in the closing statement, admitted that he saw it. That’s some epic-tier fail right there.
The problem is, I don’t think there’s much appealable there. The disputing whether he was there or not was an evidentiary decision made by the jury. The lawyer conceding he was there was just seeing the writing on the wall in closing.
To prove enough to show an unfair trial, you’d have to show that the lawyer intentionally tanked it. Otherwise Hernandez got an incredibly zealous defense that most accused would never get. Problem is, he did it. 😛
Has anyone else heard that apparently Darren Sharper is getting a penis monitor?
Not so much a penis tracker, but they would perform regular assessments using a device that measures the response of the penis to various stimuli. In his case, he’d be shown photos depicting consensual and non-consensual sex; the goal would be to see if he’s aroused by the non-consensual photos.
Am I the only one who doesn’t think that makes any sense? Whether or not he finds it arousing isn’t what’s important, whether or not he acts on that arousal is. Getting aroused doesn’t turn a person into a complete slave to their base instincts who can’t do anything but have sex with the nearest object, just measuring his arousal doesn’t do anything other than tell you what his fetish is, and it’s already pretty obvious what it is. Whether they’re trying to reform him or simply trying to contain him, this doesn’t make any sense to do it by.
There are people who have never committed, and will never commit, a violent crime despite violent sexual fetishes. Both men and women share these fantasies, consensually, never hurting anyone. While Darren Sharper is a monster more than deserving of jail time, this seems like an abysmal decision.
Just found the Sexy Rexy. That’s brilliant.
He might be an utter scumbag, but I’m sure I’m not the only person who misses his make it rain touchdown celebration. At least we still have Gronk smash.
seriously?
no one misses that.
you can look forward to jonny football doing the money flash when he scores a TD never.
I don’t get it. You’re a rich famous athlete and yet you have to go and murder some people because of disrespect? I mean what the hell man
to be fair, he was murdering people before he became rich and famous.
old habits and such
Damn,this reminded that Aaron Hernandez existed…
I’m glad he’s in jail but him being gone did kinda suck. He was a a great TE and having him and Gronk on the same roster was probably the most OP thing ever because they could both do it on their own. They didn’t need each other out there at the same time to be eeffective. It’s saddening that he basically threw away his chance to be compared to arguably the best TE in football to date. Hurts just thinking about it. I think knowing that fact and all the other circumstances is more than enough punishment for the guy.
Pats fan here…I actually lived less than 5 miles and went to a gym less than a half mile from where the body was found. I was out on a run the day they found it and was really confused why there were so many police cars on that road at that time. Little did I know, soon there after they were arresting Hernandez and it all came out. I was a little uncomfortable that I had run by a crime scene with a dead guy and didn’t know it. I will tell you though, my town, and specifically the street he lived on which is only a few miles from where the body was found, turned in to a national media hub for a few weeks. You couldn’t go anywhere in town without seeing a media van parked on a corner with a reporter looking for someone to interview. It was an insane few months.
In the end, good riddance. He was good, but now we have Martelus. I’ll take that deal…
This didnt age well.