Aaron Hernandez may have shot another of his friends

Prosecution is adding a story of another shooting to the Aaron Hernandez trial

Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez is currently on trial for the murder of his friend Odin Lloyd.

The trial has been full of twists and turns, but we’re no closer to learning whether or not he will be convicted for the murder.

By all accounts the trial so far is heavy on circumstantial evidence but light on physical evidence, meaning that the prosecution is resorting to more creative methods in order to secure a conviction.

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One of those methods, according to a Deadspin article, is to introduce evidence that Hernandez may have shot another of his friends.

Alexander Bradley, a former friend of Hernandez, was found in an alley, shot in the head on Feb. 13, 2013. This came shortly after he and Hernandez visited a strip club together.

This is the official account of what happened, via ESPN’s Michele Steele:

No one was charged with the shooting of Bradley, as he refused to cooperate with police after being found in the alley.

But the idea remains that in lieu of enough physical evidence, the idea that these kinds of suspicious shootings have been connected to Hernandez on multiple occasions may be enough to convince a jury of his guilt.

However, it remains to be seen whether this account will actually be allowed into court, as last year the prosecutors tried to introduce this story into the proceedings, only to be told by the judge that Hernandez’s “prior bad acts” were not relevant to the case at hand, and that jurors would be biased by hearing the story.

So why does the prosecution think it will work this time? Here’s their filing explaining it, courtesy of Yahoo:

“[The defense] has repeatedly emphasized to the jury that [Hernandez] could not have been the person who murdered Lloyd because [Hernandez] and Lloyd were ‘friends.’ …Indeed, [the defense] made this argument one of the cornerstones … and has cross examined witnesses suggesting that the two were friends.”

In other words, if Hernandez would never shoot a friend, how do you explain this other story, where he allegedly shot another friend?

If this is in fact allowed into trial, it will start to look much worse for Hernandez.

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