Aaron Hernandez and his defense team may have received yet another huge break. According to the Daily Mail, [rosecutors won’t be permitted to cover up a trophy case in Aaron Hernandez’s home when jurors visit it during the former New England Patriots star’s murder trial, a judge ruled Tuesday.
Fall River Superior Court Justice Susan Garsh rejected a request to shield the trophies from jurors’ view.
Prosecutor William McCauley maintained that trophy case would have made a huge impression on jurors. Hernandez’s lawyer argued that the house should be shown to the jurors exactly the way it was at the time of Odin Lloyd’s death.
Jury selection is set to begin Friday for Hernandez, who has pleaded not guilty to fatally shooting Lloyd, his friend and a semiprofessional football player, in June 2013.