OT: Aaron Hernandez charged with murder

Well, have fun rotting in jail for 25 to life, my friend.

Had everything going for you in a world-class organization. Shame that you pissed it all away like that.

Sad for all involved.

The difference between 1st and 2nd degree murder in Massachusetts:

Murder committed with deliberately premeditated malice aforethought, or with extreme atrocity or cruelty, or in the commission or attempted commission of a crime punishable with death or imprisonment for life, is murder in the first degree. Murder which does not appear to be in the first degree is murder in the second degree.

The standard you'd be looking for for 1st degree murder is "deliberately premeditated malice aforethought," which is hilariously redundant, but basically means that he had the intention of causing death or great bodily harm before he began the commission of the crime. IF the prosecution can show what they claim they can show, then that standard is well within reach.

reverting back to hanging around with the same bad people he did growing up and reverting to making very awful decisions.  I've always thought you see this pattern frequently because young guys lose the structure and discipline they had in their college program (most likely anyway) where NCAA and program rules and lack of money at least controlled what they did.  Then, when they all of sudden get big amounts of money and the coaches assume they are adults and stay out of their personal lives, things go south.   Why do many guys NOT do this?  It comes down to upbringing, the environment they grew up in, the people they surrounded themselves with and other factors. 

Obviously we're still missing a lot of details on the case, but I wonder if he will be allowed bail.  With the allegations of murder, obstruction of justice, and the potential that this might be linked in some way to another case he's involved in, those moments before he was marched out of his house in handcuffs might be the last moments of freedom he'll ever see.

Truly sad.

He is about to switch positions..from TE to WR

I heard he was having a killer offseason

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Dude is a thug, plain and simple. This is what thugs do when "disrespected", if they've been cheated, or if they smell the proverbial "rat". Many of these guys have lots of illegal money; thus, how much money they make has nothing to do with it, and consequences aren't considered. It's all about the code by which they abide.

I've said it before, but I work with violent felons daily. I hear their stories and rationale behind why they did what they did (felonious assault, murder, etc). It usually amounts to nothing more than things related to what I stated above - money, possessions (including women), perceived disrespect, and snitches.

Think of yourself and what you'd consider your breaking point(s). Now, think of how you were raised or what life experience you've had that has made this/these your breaking point(s). Also, think of how you'd react to "solve" or "avenge" whatever the problem was. For most of us, it'd be something like "if anyone laid a hand on my wife/kid, I'd physically defend them however I could". Now, for violent convicts and thugs like Hernandez, it's pretty cut and dried. They have many more "breaking points", and their solutions are often excessive violence including murder. This is what they've been taught and are simply products of their environments.

Sorry if tl;dr!

suggests that the recent incident was not an isolated one and was preceded by several others under Meyer at Fla--also that the school's legal team was quite active in trying to keep the eligible players out of jail.

For example, Hernandez was arrested .."after an altercation at local campus hangout known as The Swamp. (Then, he) received deferred prosecution.”  (In 2007 after Fla lost to Auburn, he also) was “questioned, along with three other Gator football players, about an incident in which two of the other Gators were critically injured, one of them being shot in the head.”  “Hernandez declined to discuss the case with reporters back then and was never charged with any crime.   Hernandez was one of many of Urban's Gators who were found to be using drugs.  Urban once suspended Hernandez for a game for such use.

Hernandez also was but one of 25 of Urban’s Gators, who “amassed  a’ long list of (other) criminal charges and investigations.  The problems were so extensive that “the school’s attorney became known as the team's "defensive MVP" for his work in handling the..cases.”

Sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.



AH is a vile punk - allegedly

(Allegedly)

video the camera zooms to his hands and you can see a red tattoo that says "BLOOD." I immediately interpreted that as his way of saying i've got blood on my hands.

When you commit a crime like murder there are 50 ways you can screw up. If you can think of 25 then you're a genius...and AH, you ain't no genius!

What I really don't get, is between the endless episodes of CSI, Law & Order, NCIS and other crime dramas that seem to run incessantly on TV, how the hell did he ever think he was going to pull this off and get away with it?  Did he just never ever watch TV?  I mean, on TV the bad guys pull off hits that are 10 times more devious than this and they still get hunted down like dogs.  Hernandez plan was really to rent a car (in his own name?  really?), text message his buddy to meet up in the middle of the night from his OWN PHONE (not a pre-paid throw away, but his OWN PHONE!!!)  plug 5 bullets it him, then dump him 1 mile from his house, all the while getting caught on video from his own surveillance camera?  

Is this the stupidest hit in human history?  I mean the cops didn't really have to connect the dots.  He put a freakin' neon sign on himself saying "I did it!"  He might as well have just live-blogged it on the internet.

Now he's also being investigated in a double murder last summer in Boston.