Keeping tabs on players and keeping investigators and following them around is something else. If a player who is doing nothing wrong found out the team is tailing him around due to some rumor or other everyone would be screaming about "big brother" looking over everyones shoulders.
You're right, but it annoys me that the NFL and the sports media keep carrying on this charade about NFL Security. If NFL Security was so professional, why is it that they never uncover criminal activity by a player? Michael Vick, Aaron Hernandez, etc., etc. It's always local Law Enforcement that finds the crime and the NFL always says: "We had no Idea". Like I said: NFL Security is a farce. :grin:
Aaron Hernandez appeared at a probable cause hearing in court today to determine whether or not a grand jury would indict him for murder. 8/22/13 12:53 p.m. update: Grand Jury has indicted Aaron Hernandez on murder charges: http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/22/justice/aaron-hernandez-hearing/index.html
if you believe the Rolling Stone article it sounds as if the Patriots had a pretty good idea as to who Aaron Hernandez was the issue is I'm not so sure I believe the Rolling Stone article.
The guy who fingered Hernandez for the murder, via hearsay, is now changing his story in a way that his original admission cannot be correct. Here's the situation leading into the murder: Hernandez, Odin Lloyd (the victim), Ernest Wallace and Carlos Ortiz were all sitting in the SUV in the industrial parking lot after pulling over for a piss stop. Ortiz claimed that Hernandez, Lloyd and Wallace got out of the car and a minute later he heard a gunshot. He claimed that Wallace had then told him sometime later that Hernandez pulled the trigger and murdered Lloyd. Now his story has changed some. He now says that just Hernandez and Lloyd got out of the car and then he heard a gunshot and then Hernandez got back in the car. The key thing in the change is that his credibility as a witness is now significantly reduced. He said one thing and then he said another about the same sequence of events. What Hernandez lawyers will now do is question whether anything that Ortiz says about the subject can be trusted. They'll ask why a witness who changed his story once should be trusted enough to put a man behind bars for the rest of his life. It's a very basic question and the state's case against Hernandez, which is largely circumstantial, just got weaker. BTW, I don't question the charges. It seems likely that Hernandez either killed Lloyd or asked somebody else to do it for him. However the case is pretty much on the reasonable doubt line until the state can conclusively prove that Hernandez either killed Lloyd or was an actor in bringing about his death. As an example of reasonable doubt: can the prosecutors now prove who got out of the car with Lloyd in that parking lot? Can they even prove the car was in the parking lot that night, absent Ortiz's testimony?
We were "duped" http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/15/justice/aaron-hernandez-indictment/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
This all just changes with his new indictment on a separate double homicide lol Guy is gonna be locked away for life
From the Associate Press: With today's dual homicide charges brought against Aaron Hernandez, the New England Patriots moved ahead of the O.J. Simpson-led Buffalo Bills into sole possession of 1st place in the AFC East's "Arrested-on-Murder-Charges" Sweepstakes. Hernandez' two additional murder charges which was announced by Suffolk County (Mass.) D.A. Daniel F. Conley brought the Patriots' total to four counts of murder and moved them 2 full murder victims ahead of the 2nd-place Bills. The murder charge-free New York Jets have yet to register their 1st off-the-field indictable capital crime offense prompting speculation that it may have to come on-the-field with the addition of head-hunting safety Calvin Pryor out of Louisville. The standings as of May 15: NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS Aaron Hernandez: 3 Eric Naposki: 1 TOTAL: 4 BUFFALO BILLS O.J. Simpson: 2 TOTAL: 2 MIAMI DOLPHINS James Wilson: 1 TOTAL: 1 NEW YORK JETS TOTAL: 0
Forgot to add this to the Hernandez file when I read this a couple weeks ago. http://nesn.com/2014/04/aaron-hernandez-reportedly-threatened-to-kill-jail-guard/
I don't know where else to post Pats-related crap but check this out. From PatsFans.com - Patriots fans setting new standards for lame:
He has to be the dumbest person to ever play professional sports. To piss away that future? The money, the fame, mentions in the history books. I get that he's innocent until proven guilty and that maybe he grew up in that world and it is hard to get out of it but still...can't help but think he's just a stupid, stupid person.
