Aaron Hernandez isn’t ballin today.
A Superior Court judge has denied a request to relocate the first-degree murder trial of the former Patriots star from Bristol County.
The judge rules from the bench on Aaron #Hernandez change of venue motion: she says no. Trial will proceed as scheduled in Fall River Jan 9
— Lisa Kraus Edwards (@LAKEdwards) October 30, 2014
Hernandez’s defense team requested the venue switch because they believe media coverage is undermining his right to a fair trial.
Attorneys for Hernandez actually hired a pollster who says too many Bristol County residents have already made up their minds according to the Boston Globe.
“As the telephone polls conducted for the Defendant demonstrate, due to pre-trial publicity the likes of which have perhaps never been seen in Massachusetts, a deep and objective jury pool simply does not exist in Bristol County,’’ the lawyers wrote on Tuesday.