Could be total speculation, but Fox 25 (Boston) is reporting police are investigating the possibility of Hernandez being involved in a July 16, 2012 double homicide in Boston.
To come back to this, they’re taking a major cap hit this year and next. Despite not being paid yet, you’re allowed to play a few accounting games for the salary cap and spread your cap hit out over several seasons. Usually, structuring the cap this way isn’t a problem for a team and is actually preferable. But usually, your expensive player doesn’t organize a murder.
Solely in salary cap terms, they’d have been better off leaving him on the roster and letting him fail to report/play due to incarceration. As it is, they’re on the hook for $5M this season alone and more next year.
According to the article, it also looks like they can try to just not pay him (still taking a cap hit, though) and letting Hernandez (and maybe the NFLPA, if they back him) try filing grievance to recover his guarantee money for this season and the rest of his contract.
Wow. Does Connecticut have the death penalty?
MEMO
TO: All Police Homicide Division Everywhere
FROM: Boston Police Dpartment
RE: Open Murder Investigations
We probably have your perp.
Upon googling, it appears they abolished it just last year. More’s the pity if Hernandez is found guilty of these homicides.
You’re thinking of Dick Cheney.
Meh. If he’s guilty, a lifetime or at least until he’s old and decrepit of demoralizing, degrading conditions combined with a newfound fear of showering with other men (after years of doing just that) is enough for me.
Unlike Hernandez, I’m not the type to think killing a man solves most problems. OTOH, I wouldn’t lose much sleep if he was guilty and got the death penalty, either.
Unfortunately no.
Lawsuit claims Patriots’ Aaron Hernandez shot man in face in Florida
Those murders were in Boston.
I don’t quite share your opinion, mostly because Hernandez will probably king shit in prison. Former NFL tight end, as big and strong as he is, with former gang ties, up on a murder rap? You think he’s going to *get *the Andy Dufrane treatment, or be giving it?
Honestly, I expect neither. It was more a prison rape joke (in poor taste, I know, but I like low brow humor more than I should).
My real expectation is that, if convicted and sentenced to prison, he’s going to be in for a lot of fights and attempted fights for the first several months. Some guys might go sycophantic, but I expect a fair number will want to take down the bigshot NFL star brought low to build themselves up.
I expect he’d eventually find some kind of regular crew eventually. Whether or not that involves attempted or actual rape of other inmates is anybody’s guess. I also have no idea if he’d be the alpha male of this pack. Being big and strong isn’t enough on its own. There are plenty other big, strong men in prison.
But I was serious that a lifetime (or close enough to it) of being locked away from society is enough for me. I don’t need to know he’s dead or that he will be soon. And, in a sick way, it’s crueler to force him to realize he’s never going to experience anything resembling a normal life ever again than give him the surcease of death.
“Former” gang ties? He apparently never *left *the Latin Kings.
The main slammer in the state, MCI Cedar Junction, is practically right around the corner from Gillette Stadium. He might even be able to hear the cheers on game days.
Still no death penalty possible then. According to this map on Wikipedia, Massachusetts has not conducted any executions since 1976 (when it was made possible once again on a national level). Additionally, the death penalty statute in Massachusetts was struck down by a court ruling in 1984.
That’s what I am wondering. This is pretty unusual too. NFL players going to prison doesn’t happen all that often. Rae Curruth is the only other player I can think of that got convicted of murder. Mercury Morris did some time for…drugs back in the 1970’s. Has any player ever sentenced to prison besides Mike Vick ever come back and played in the league again?
Obviously this probably won’t apply to Aaron.
Just to follow up, I talked to my mom and she confirmed that the murder apparently took place within sight of her former office in that industrial park. At the time she worked for a jewelry company, but I think they moved to a different location a long time ago. She’s been retired at least ten years.
Plexico Burress
1947, actually. It became illegal later.
Ah, quite right. Anyone else? Is that it?
Maybe they can make an exception?
Of course, he was smart enough to only shoot himself.
Maybe not officially, but they can do what they did to Father John Geoghan - put him in a cell with another inmate who they know will kill him, then turn their attention elsewhere for awhile.
Which made the prison officials involved accomplices to Geoghan’s murder, btw, even if no charges were ever filed.