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Aaron Hernandez of NE Patriots - Charged with Murder
Hernandez Victory Regarding Suppression of Evidence

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This sucks.

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In a 28-page ruling, Judge E. Susan Garsh did not specify what evidence from the devices — an iPhone 5, a Blackberry Bold cellphone, an Apple iPad, and two iPad minis — will be inadmissible at Hernandez’s trial on charges of murdering Odin L. Lloyd of Dorchester in June 2013.

“In effect, the Commonwealth maintains that a search warrant for a cell phone with a designated number constitutes authority in all cases to seize every cell phone found at the search site,” Judge Garsh wrote. In the ruling, Garsh rejected the prosecutors’ argument that troopers were entitled to seize any cellphones in Hernandez’s home in order to determine which one was his.


On the plus side, for the prosecution:
Last month, Garsh denied a defense motion to suppress additional evidence taken from a separate cellphone that belonged to Hernandez, which he had given to his attorney and which State Police had obtained another warrant for.

Authorities say Hernandez’s number from that cellphone was programmed into Lloyd’s phone and Lloyd called and texted Hernandez a few hours before he was shot. They also allege that Hernandez summoned his codefendants in the slaying via text message several hours before the murder.


In her July ruling, Garsh had also denied a defense motion to suppress images from Hernandez’s home surveillance system, which allegedly showed him holding a gun inside the residence shortly after the fatal shooting of Lloyd, whose bullet-riddled body was found in an industrial yard near Hernandez’s spacious home. (HOTD: some of the surveillance tape from that night/morning is missing and the murder weapon has never been located.)

Full story: http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/08...story.html
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RE: Aaron Hernandez of NE Patriots - Murder Connection - by HairOfTheDog - 08-27-2014, 09:32 AM