Aaron Hernandez at his June arraignment on a murder charge. Pool photo by Mike George The Sun Chronicle
By Steve Klamkin WPRO News
With each new revelation, the murder case against Aaron Hernandez seems to be growing stronger, says WPRO's legal analyst.
"The long and the short of it is, he's going away," said WPRO legal analyst Lou Pulner. "He's already away. It's never going to get any better for him."
Pulner's comments came after Tuesday's release of 156 pages of documents by the court in Attleboro containing search warrants and supporting affidavits filed by investigators, and documents in Florida containing damning accusations from a co-defendant.
Hernandez is charged with murder in the June 17 shooting death of his friend, Odin Lloyd. Lloyd's bullet-riddled body was found in an industrial area not far from Hernandez' home. Two other men are held in connection with the case.
Investigators reported that Hernandez slammed the door to his North Attleboro home in their face when they told them they were investigating a death. They said that the football star never bothered to ask whose death they were investigating.
"Obviously, he wasn't too happy, but he knows what he did, and he knows what they were going to find," Pulner told WPRO's John Depetro on Wednesday. "I'd slam the door on them, too."
Documents uncovered Tuesday by the Associated Press in Florida, filed by police preparing the extradition of Hernandez co-defendant Ernest Wallace from Miramar, Florida to Massachusetts indicate that a third man charged in the case, Carlos Ortiz, claimed that Wallace told him that Hernandez had shot Lloyd.
"He's going to testify as to what he heard, and it may not be as we say in legal terms, not for the truth of the matter asserted but for what was actually uttered from his mouth," Pulner said.
"But, they're going to be able to close this up without his testimony anyway, I believe. At this juncture, Hernandez is going to do whatever he can to save his life."
"The case is all circumstantial right now, but every piece they put together, it already seems overwhelming," Pulner said, adding, "I think this is going to be an open and shut case at some point very soon."
