Judge Vacates Aaron Hernandez' Murder Charge, Patriots Could Owe Millions
Many people felt that this was the reason Aaron Hernandez committed suicide the whole time.
After a judge vacated his guilty murder verdict, the Patriots could be on the hook to pay his estate millions of dollars.
A judge on Tuesday erased a 2013 murder conviction against former NFL star Aaron Hernandez, ruling that case law in Massachusetts has long established that defendants who die before their appeals are heard should have their convictions vacated. -(NY Daily News)
His lawyer spoke to TMZ about the possibility of getting paid.
Aaron Hernandez’s attorney, Jose Baez, says his legal team is in talks with the NFL player’s former agents to see how the abatement of his murder conviction will affect his contract with the Patriots.
There are theories that with the murder conviction erased, the New England Patriots will be on the hook to pay out the remainder of his contract to Aaron’s estate … a number reportedly around $6 million.
This could be interesting..