Hernandez

Massachusetts' highest court on Wednesday reinstated the late Aaron Hernandez's murder conviction, which was erased after the former NFL star killed himself in prison.

(Fall River, MA) -- A Massachusetts judge is vacating a murder conviction against former NFL player Aaron Hernandez. Superior Court Judge E. Susan Garsh today granted a defense request to vacate the conviction and return his status to a person only accused of a crime because he died before his appeals process was completed...

FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) - A judge is set to hear arguments in a push by lawyers for former NFL star Aaron Hernandez to erase his conviction in a 2013 murder. The former New England Patriots tight end hanged himself in his prison cell April 19 while serving a life sentence in the killing of semi-professional football player Odin Lloyd...

DARTMOUTH - With an acquittal in a double murder trial just last week, and an appeal on a murder conviction likely on the way, many are wondering why Aaron Hernandez would kill himself now. Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson got to know Hernandez a little during the former New England Patriot's incarceration at the Bristol County House of Corrections in 2013...

BOSTON (AP) - A lawyer for former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez has objected to the judge's selection of a white woman as the jury forewoman in his double-murder trial. Attorney Ronald Sullivan Jr. made his argument Monday as jurors started their second day of deliberations...

30-year-old Johnny Hernandez has been charged with larceny of a firearm, carrying a firearm without a license, carrying a loaded firearm without a license, discharging a firearm within 50 feet of a building, breaking and entering with intent to commit a felony, and with intent to murder...