File photo: Shayanna Jenkins and Janice Bassil. Pool photo by George Rizer / The Boston Globe
By Steve Klamkin WPRO News
Cleaning maids for Aaron Hernandez and his fiancée, Shayanna Jenkins told a grand jury they had seen guns in different locations in the North Attleboro home that the couple shared, and where the former New England Patriots player was taken into custody for the June, 2013 murder of Odin Lloyd.
A filing by Jenkins’ attorney revealed that the maids testified they saw guns in locations around the home at 22 Ronald C. Meyer Drive, including under a mattress in the guest bedroom in the basement, in the pants pocket of Hernandez’ pants on his closet floor, in Hernandez’ closet drawer, and felt what they believed to be a gun wrapped in a blanket or clothing in a downstairs closet.
Jenkins’ attorney, Janice Bassil asked Judge Susan Garsh to order prosecutors to provide any contradictory statements by witnesses that could clear her client of perjury. Jenkins is charged with lying to the grand jury that indicted Hernandez for murder.
Bassil is also asking the judge to order the prosecution to provide her with all rewards, promises, inducements or threats made to the four women maids.
According to the prosecution Bassil says that Jenkins threatened to report the women to immigration authorities if they cooperated with police. The four women have engaged an attorney, who Bassil says indicated in an e-mail that their helpfulness to the investigation makes the four eligible for a visa to remain in the U.S.
Another filing, believed to be offered by Bassil, was impounded by the court.
Also, Judge Garsh will allow a deposition to be taken from a Massachusetts State Trooper who is part of the team that analyzed the video surveillance team taken from Aaron Hernandez’s North Attleboro home following the June, 2013 murder of Odin Lloyd. Charged with murder, the former New England Patriots player has denied the charge.
Trooper John Conron is scheduled to undergo major surgery on December 1, and faces a three to four month recovery period, well past the trial, set for early January, 2015.
