This could be a good thing or bad thing for Aaron Hernandez and his first murder trial. Hernandez’s distict attorney in the Odin Lloyd case, Sam Sutter, is now the new mayor of Fall River, Mass. With the trial beginning Monday, outgoing Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick appointed current assistant D.A. Thomas M. Quinn III to serve as acting district attorney.
“I am making this appointment now to assure the stability of the critical work of the office and fully respect the authority of the incoming governor to make his own appointment in due course,” Patrick said in a statement, via CBS Boston.
“It is very important for the office on the eve of one of the most highly publicized trials in the country,” Sutter said in a statement of his own.