Ex-Pats player wants witness descriptions barred from trial
BOSTON — Lawyers for former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez asked a judge on Wednesday to prevent the jury at his upcoming double murder trial from hearing descriptions of the shooter from two witnesses who were inside a car prosecutors say Hernandez sprayed with bullets.
Hernandez is scheduled to go on trial in February in the 2012 killings of two Boston men prosecutors allege he shot after an encounter at a nightclub. He is accused of following the men and then opening fire on their car after one of them accidentally bumped into him in the club and caused him to spill a drink.
During a hearing in Suffolk Superior Court, defence attorney Jose Baez said the descriptions given by two other men in the car have changed over time, are unreliable and should be excluded from the trial.
“They’re all over the place,” said Baez, who is known for winning an acquittal for Casey Anthony in the death of her daughter during a highly publicized trial in 2011.