Aaron Hernandez is currently serving a life sentence for the murder of Odin Lloyd. Hernandez has now hired a high-profile attorney to head up his new defense team to appeal that murder conviction and to fight his upcoming trial for a double homicide.
via ESPN:
Jose Baez, who represented Casey Anthony when she was acquitted of murder in the death of her 2-year-old daughter Caylee, is heading the team, which will include Harvard Law professor Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. and Alex Spiro, who represented NBA player Thabo Sefolosha in his legal battle with New York police.
His previous team of attorneys, led by James Sultan, filed an appeal in that case last month. A 2015 application for an appeal had already been denied.
Hernandez is also awaiting trial on murder charges in Boston, where he is accused of gunning down two men outside a nightclub in 2012. He has pleaded not guilty in that case.
“We understand that numerous reports of our client’s alleged activity have been published, but we ask the public to afford Mr. Hernandez the presumption of innocence and let the facts unfold in a court of law,” Baez said in a statement Wednesday.