Aaron Hernandez played for the Patriots from 2010 to 2012, when he was arrested on murder charges. (Stephan Savoia/Associated Press)Lawyers for Aaron Hernandez filed a motion Tuesday in a Massachusetts court asking for the deceased former NFL player’s first-degree murder conviction to be overturned. They cited legal precedent in the state for such an outcome when a defendant dies before completing his or her appeals. He was serving a sentence of life without parole after being convicted in 2015 of murdering another man, Odin Lloyd, in 2013, but was appealing that conviction. “I issued the statement yesterday as follows: ‘Rumors of letters to a gay lover, in or out of prison, are false.

Source: Washington Post April 26, 2017 00:00 UTC