I caught the tail end of the CNN item during the day on the trial. Susan Candiotti said that of all the witnesses she thought the person the jury paid the most attention to and even went so far to say he was the "star" witness was Kraft. Now if you saw any of his testimony being in that courtroom was the last place he wanted to be. But apparently his comments were gripping. I didn't hear the entire testimony but he did say that he asked AH if he was involved in the crime and that Hernandez kissed him and said he wasn't. Of course later his lawyer said something different: that Hernandez was present at the murder but didn't pull the trigger, etc.
sure--hes "hard-core gangsta". That's his choice and how he will now live the rest of his life. What a fuckin fool.
He looks dazed not arrogant. Most legal experts felt he wouldn't get 1st degree murder because of legal maneuvers. If they just got him on a weapons charge he could have walked today considering time spent in prison since being arrested.
Crazy that his defense team finally admitted that AH was a witness to the murder. That might have been the final kick the jury needed. Before AH defense team finally admits that AH is there with Lloyd for the murder it's a fairly close case lacking clear motive, a weapon (kind of), and still some speculation on where AH was when Lloyd was murdered. It was the right verdict though. so duped.
It was a desperate move I think. But trying to paint the other two guys as ringleaders was not even a little believable. AH had the money, the power, the pull... to think that he'd be a witness only without taking any action is way far-fetched, IMO.
One theory on motive (which might not have been allowed as admissible evidence in court) was that Lloyd knew something about the double murder he's going to be tried on. And was talking about it openly. And that's the way guys in gangs settle these kinds of disputes.
can't help but wonder if he won't use that admission by his attorney as grounds for a new trial on appeal.
Hernandez drove the vehicle. They went to an isolated area at around 3 am. Lloyd was shot about 6 times. Later the video at Hernandez's home showed him handling a gun which the cops could never find. Those were the basics of the circumstantial evidence. And then of course the text message from Lloyd to his sister.
This was all a combination of drugs, gang justice and indifference. In my opinion Hernandez who when the jury was not present looked arrogant has no regrets about the murder: because he still thinks that Lloyd deserved it.
He had a high power defense team. After the verdict I think he said WRONG and looked back at his mother. He knows he f'ed up here and that he's officially finished.
