Pulaski

Aaron Hernandez commits suicide.

Who saw that coming?

Bob

Indeed...quite big noose locally.

Nutmegger

Kraft must be so ticked off that he did it on the day that the team make their Super Bowl winners visit to the White House! Hernandez is going to be the only topic that the reporters will want to talk about.

SultanOfSwing

Now that was a pun

moneypenny20

Seems a bit odd. I saw the headline and thought 'Didn't I read that he'd been found not guilty in the latest case?' Maybe he misunderstood the verdict??? Oh well, cf=0. WGAF thread really.

Pulaski

Well it was odd, I think, that he was found not guilty, and only yesterday the question was whether he had a platform to launch any sort of appeal that was likely to succeed against his first murder conviction, so the timing of his suicide was odd. That said, his first conviction was pretty cut and dried, for a murder that was a cold-blooded execution for no substantive reason.

I am inclined to agree with your WGAF sentiment though.

Nutmegger

He was already serving a life sentence with no parole in a prior murder case.

Bob

As mentioned, guilty for a prior murder. This was a case for a double murder the year prior.

He was hoping a not guilty verdict here would give him a chance for a new trial in the other case, but that wasn't likely to happen as this case wasn't brought up in the other case where he was found guilty.

Giantaxe

The day of his suicide may not have been coincidental.

Hernandez was also facing trial in Florida for the shooting of a witness to the shooting for which Hernandez was just acquitted. Really, the prospect of him ever being released was basically zero.

Nutmegger

Interesting background articles in Sports Illustrated today:

Aaron Hernandez’s Death: What We’re Left to Ask | The MMQB with Peter King