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Tuesday, May 9, 2017
Aaron Hernandez: Cleared of Murder Thanks to Being Dead!
The late NFL star and convicted killer Aaron Hernandez was granted an abatement on his conviction for the 2013 murder of Odin Lloyd.
What does that mean?
It means the former New England Patriots star, who took his own life last month in prison, is now considered not guilty in the eyes of the law.
Bristol County (Mass.) Judge Susan Garsh, who presided over the original trial, ruled in favor of the star’s estate, citing a bizarre law.
Massachusetts law states that if a defendant dies while a conviction is still in the process of appeal, then the previous verdict is vacated.
Hernandez committed suicide late last month while serving a sentence of life without parole for the murder of Lloyd. He was just 27.
“Abatement is the law in this Commonwealth and this court is required to follow that precedent,” Garsh said. “The Court has no other choice.”
The state is expected to appeal the controversial decision, which will most likely wind up in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
In other words, the legal battle is just beginning.
Hernandez’s attorney, John Thompson, argued that neither his client’s cause of death nor any assumed motives should apply to the law.
He also noted there was no precedent in any other ruling on the issue that called for abatement not to be granted in a similar situation.
“[The original Lloyd ruling] is not a final conviction,” Thompson said, even though a jury convicted Hernandez of murder. “And that’s what matters.”
Prosecutor Patrick Bomberg argued otherwise.
Bomberg argued that Hernandez chose to die, thus making a conscious decision to forfeit his appeal as a means of being cleared.
This is supported by the suicide note to Shayanna Jenkins that basically says as much, and was never, he says, the intent of the law.
According to a state police report, Hernandez even mentioned to an unnamed fellow inmate that he was aware of the abatement law.
In one of his suicide notes, he allegedly wrote “YOURE RICH” to Jenkins (above), his fiancee and the father of his four-year-old daughter.
“The defendant should not be able to accomplish in death what he could not accomplish in life,” Bomberg said of Hernandez’s efforts.
At stake is not just Hernandez’s criminal record, which is a moot point now, but his potential monetary payouts from the NFL franchise.
The Patriots may no longer be able to withhold money owed on his contract due to a conviction for murder, as they have been doing.
“We are arguing there is a motive to [commit suicide],” Bomberg said, noting the financial benefits; Garsh summarily dismissed that point.
“This court cannot know why Hernandez took his life,” Garsh said, citing other possible motives, including the athlete’s increased spirituality.
She also noted that other inmates heard via a Boston radio show that Hernandez might be gay or bisexual and trying to hide that.
Also complicating matters is that if the Hernandez estate does get paid, the family of Odin Lloyd still has a wrongful death civil suit pending.
They, in turn, may be able to access any or all money the Hernandez estate gets, if it comes to that (the Patriots are expected to fight this).
The families of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado, whom Hernandez was acquitted of murdering in 2012, may also be suing his estate.
A civil suit requires a lower standard of proof than a conviction in criminal court (see O.J. Simpson’s $ 33 million judgment, for example).
Hernandez estate is currently valued at $ 0.00.
Lloyd’s mother and sister led a large group at the hearing of supporters for Lloyd, a former semi-pro football player and Boston landscaper.
That group included Shaneah Jenkins, Lloyd’s former girlfriend and the sister of Shayanna Jenkins-Hernandez, who was not present.
The Lloyd supporters wept at the ruling.
After a lengthy trial, a Bristol County jury ruled in 2015 that Hernandez shot Lloyd six times in an industrial park less than a mile from his home.
The Bristol, Conn., native won a national title at the University of Florida and played three seasons with the Patriots, appearing in one Super Bowl.
Farrah Abraham to Kailyn Lowry: Stop Getting Knocked Up By Randoms!
Well… this escalated quickly.
On Sunday night, Farrah Abraham donned a Bollywood-inspired outfit to the MTV Movie & TV Awards, drawing criticism from all around the Internet because she appropriated a culture’s religious symbol in order to make a fashion statement.
This is what she wore to the event:
When asked about the ensemble, the short-tempered Teen Mom said she thought it was “sexy,” “amazing” and that she hoped it would “inspire others to embrace new cultures and have good experiences.”
We guess we’ll need to wait and see if that happens.
But we didn’t need to wait very long to get Kailyn Lowry’s take on her fellow reality star’s red carpet attire.
Approached for comment by The Dirty, Lowry didn’t exactly offer up the most scathing critique of all-time.
Still, she made it clear she wasn’t a fan of Abraham’s choice here.
“I didn’t see Farrah, but her outfit was cute,” said Lowry, clearly being sarcastic and adding:
“It’s not a costume party, but whatever… I’m not sure why it would offend people, [but] she already did the costume thing at the VMA’s last year. It’s old.”
Like we said, these don’t really read like fighting words – unless you’re Farrah Abraham.
“Was she even invited?” Abraham angrily replied to The Dirty when told of Lowry’s opinion.
And then Farrah went right for the jugular.
“Her look of being pregnant has been done and is old,” she said of Lowry, who is expecting her third child with her third baby daddy. “Stop getting knocked up by randoms.”
Yes, stop getting knocked up by randoms. Amazing.
For the record, Lowry is the mother to a seven-year old son that she had with long-time boyfriend Jo Rivera.
She’s also the mother to a three-year old son that she shares with ex-husband Javi Marroquin. We’re pretty sure having a child with one’s husband is the opposite of having it with a random.
Now, Lowry has finally come out and admitted that her impending son or daughter was made possible via unprotected sex with some dude named Chris Lopez.
And, okay, granted, yeah: he’s pretty darn random.
He’s so random, in fact, that he’s somehow managed to scarcely have an Internet presence, even in this day and age. Good luck finding any real photos of Chris Lopez.
Nevertheless, this is a pretty harsh clapback at Lowry, especially when you consider that she didn’t even say Abraham’s MTV Awards dress was offensive.
But it’s also what makes Farrah Abraham… Farrah Abraham.
For all of her many, many, many, MANY faults as a human being, Farrah only has one child, an eight-year old girl named Sophia.
She’s doesn’t know how to avoid exploiting her daughter at all times, but she has apparently learned how to use a condom.
So this is one soapbox on which Farrah can comfortably stand, and on which many other Teen Mom cast members can’t say very much in response.
Will Lowry fire back at Abraham?
Will this feud escalate to even more mean-spirited and personal levels?
Probably not.
Lowry, after all, has a couple other fires to put out first, considering her previous two baby daddies both just called her out for spending time with a mystery man while pregnant.
We hate to agree with anything Farrah Abraham says, but she’s not entirely wrong here:
Lowry would be better served in life if she stopped getting knocked up.
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