Aaron Hernandez Murder Conviction Officially Dismissed
9:05 AM PT — The Bristol County D.A.’s Office just said they plan to appeal the judge’s decision.Aaron Hernandez‘s conviction for the murder of Odin Lloyd has officially been dismissed by a judge.
The case went before the court in Massachusetts early Tuesday morning where Hernandez’s team argued that the conviction cannot stand because he had not exhausted all of his appeals before his death. The doctrine is called abatement ab initio.
Prosecutors argued against it — claiming Hernandez knew about the rule and used it as a loophole in…