Hernandez lawyers: Court wrong to restore murder conviction
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}FILE - In this March 29, 2017, file photo, Aaron Hernandez listens during his double murder trial in Suffolk Superior Court in Boston. He already was serving a life sentence in the 2013 killing of semi-professional football player Odin Lloyd. Attorneys for the late former New England Patriots NFL football filed documents on Friday, April 12, 2019, saying that the state Supreme Judicial Court got it wrong when it ordered in March that Hernandez's conviction in the Lloyd case be restored. The court's decision did away with the legal principle that erased Hernandez's conviction after the 27-year-old killed himself in his prison cell in 2017. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, Pool, File)
Attorneys for the late Aaron Hernandez are asking Massachusetts' highest court to reverse its decision to reinstate the former New England Patriot's murder conviction.
The lawyers say in documents filed Friday that the Supreme Judicial Court got it wrong when it ordered last month that Hernandez's conviction be restored.
Hernandez was found guilty in 2015 of killing semi-professional football player Odin Lloyd.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The Supreme Judicial Court's decision did away with the legal principle that erased Hernandez's conviction after the 27-year-old killed himself in his prison cell in 2017.
The court said convictions in such cases will now stand. It applied the new rule to Hernandez's case, but no other prior cases.
Hernandez's lawyers say the new rule should impact only future cases, not Hernandez's.