No offense to your friend, but I'm guessing not a Pats fan?A friend showed me a tweet today that said something to the effect of:
INJURY UPDATE: Aaron Hernandez (neck) OUT indefinitely
That detail was clarified today. It was written on his forehead. Which is a detail that makes it hard to believe that he didn't have some help, even if the "helper" had no idea that Hernandez was going to kill himself. (It's incredibly hard to legibly write on your own forehead.)I was thinking the same. I'd bet they mean hand and not head.
This is some bad conspiricay theorizing. Have you ever watched your wife put her makeup on in a mirror? You really think because this guy had 8 characters written on his forehead, it proves somebody else was in there?That detail was clarified today. It was written on his forehead. Which is a detail that makes it hard to believe that he didn't have some help, even if the "helper" had no idea that Hernandez was going to kill himself. (It's incredibly hard to legibly write on your own forehead.)
He didn't say it proves anything.This is some bad conspiricay theorizing. Have you ever watched your wife put her makeup on in a mirror? You really think because this guy had 8 characters written on his forehead, it proves somebody else was in there?
If prove meant "establish with 100% certainty," you'd be right.He didn't say it proves anything.
News says that the CO skipped his 2am check in on AH. Found just after 3am dead. From WEEI:There's also the fact that every individual cell at Souza-Baranowski has video surveilence to guard against this precise event. That doesn't mean that the prison didn't screw up and turn his camera off or that some other malfunction occurred, but still ...
According to Boston-based investigative reporter Michele McPhee, the correctional officer assigned to Hernandez’s cell block has been detached with pay. She tweeted earlier the officer failed to conduct the 2 a.m. check, but the tweet has since been deleted.
I didn't say that there was any conspiracy. In fact, I tried to be careful in how I phrased it to make it clear that I don't see anything that means he didn't kill himself. But if the reports are true, then no, I don't believe that he was able to write out "John 3:16" legibly across his forehead by himself. Frankly, if he had used a mirror to do it, he most likely would have ended up with an illegible mirror-image on his forehead, like that moron who tried to fake an attack by Obama supporters some years ago.This is some bad conspiricay theorizing. Have you ever watched your wife put her makeup on in a mirror? You really think because this guy had 8 characters written on his forehead, it proves somebody else was in there?
This is a very subtle UF dig. I appreciate the good work.I didn't say that there was any conspiracy. In fact, I tried to be careful in how I phrased it to make it clear that I don't see anything that means he didn't kill himself. But if the reports are true, then no, I don't believe that he was able to write out "John 3;16" legibly across his forehead by himself. Frankly, if he had used a mirror to do it, he most likely would have ended up with an illegible mirror-image on his forehead, like that moron who tried to fake an attack by Obama supporters some years ago.
Its absolutely possible that he was adept enough to do it himself. But it's certainly odd. And it would not surprise me to learn that he had another inmate do it. (Which doesn't mean that the inmate was involved in anything else. Which I also pointed out.)
There is a significant difference between promoting conspiracy theories and observing that there are inconsistencies or improbabilities in the story that is emerging.
Trick question the 2004 Yankees choked harder
Just as soon as they can get their hands on itKevin Armstrong @KevinGArmstrong 16m16 minutes ago
Aaron Hernandez's family is donating his brain to science for the study of CTE, per his attorneys.
Why's that? He might have basically decided on doing it, and smoked up for one last high, or to build up the courage to do it. Or he might have been struggling with the question and the depression/resignation got to him after he smoked.Isn't that the stuff Chandler Jones smoked before his barefoot sojourn to the Foxboro police station a couple years ago?
If Hernandez smoked that last night, it makes the theory that he killed himself as part of a pre-meditated plan to benefit his estate a hell of a lot harder to swallow.
Or wanting to make a CTE claim.Just as soon as they can get their hands on it
Aaron Hernandez's attorney says the state medical examiner's office is illegally withholding his client's brain
[conspiracy]must be spackling the bullet hole[/conspiracy]
More likely they can't find one.Aaron Hernandez's attorney says the state medical examiner's office is illegally withholding his client's brain
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Not quite the same...but didn't Scalia once say something like he wouldn't grant a habeas petition based on due process even if the murder victim walked into the Supreme Court during the oral argument.I've only had one criminal client die pre-trial. The prosecutor kept threatening to try the case because corrections couldn't produce a death certificate to her liking. To this day I have no idea what she was on about, but it may have been a slightly irrational response to pressure from the victim. But, I mean, what are you going to do, wheel the corpse out there and have a trial?
If so, they're more like opposites. Scalia is saying that process controls over what happens in the real world, even if it's manifestly unjust. OTOH, I think my anecdote is that the real world clearly can show you the absurd stances one can take based on (to be fair, a misunderstanding) of process.Not quite the same...but didn't Scalia once say something like he wouldn't grant a habeas petition based on due process even if the murder victim walked into the Supreme Court during the oral argument.
Does MA allow for an injunction freezing pre-judgment assets? Or some kind of potential judgment sequestration process in probate?Looked a bit deeper. Apparently Lloyd's family had already advanced their wrongful death suit to the point where the court ordered that liability was established by the criminal conviction, but damages were not yet found. So this complicates things further.
You can get a positive preliminary injunction requiring escrow or prohibiting the dissipation of assets, but that's the usual PI analysis. For the uninitiated, that's a substantial likelihood of success on the merits, a showing that the moving party will suffer irreparable harm in the absence of the injunction, and a balance of the equities.If so, they're more like opposites. Scalia is saying that process controls over what happens in the real world, even if it's manifestly unjust. OTOH, I think my anecdote is that the real world clearly can show you the absurd stances one can take based on (to be fair, a misunderstanding) of process.
Does MA allow for an injunction freezing pre-judgment assets? Or some kind of potential judgment sequestration process in probate?
Agreed. But if someone were asleep at the switch . . .I have to think that even though the conviction was vacated, the likelihood of success on the merits is very strong.
Someone's a little confused about this whole 'religion' thing.Ruled a suicide. Also found notes to his daughter and fiancee
Chris Villani @ChrisVillani44
The notes found in #AaronHernandez cell were letters to his daughter & fiancee, saying he loved them & would see them in heaven, per source
I assume he's Catholic, so maybe not.Someone's a little confused about this whole 'religion' thing.
Having attended Catholic school for eight years, I can tell you I was taught by the nuns that if you committed suicide you were going to hell because it was a mortal sin. Apparently that does not agree with current teachings.I assume he's Catholic, so maybe not.
Where do the Catholics stand on murder?Having attended Catholic school for eight years, I can tell you I was taught by the nuns that if you committed suicide you were going to hell because it was a mortal sin. Apparently that does not agree with current teachings.
http://www.catholicdigest.com/articles/faith/knowledge/2007/04-01/do-people-who-commit-suicide-go-to-hell
So maybe nobody is clear on the whole religion thing.
Edit ... not agree
As long as you accept Jesus after the fact, it'sWhere do the Catholics stand on murder?
I sense a plot twist comingChris Villani @ChrisVillani44
The notes found in #AaronHernandez cell were letters to his daughter & fiancee, saying he loved them & would see them in heaven, per source
"accepting Jesus" isn't really a term associated with Catholicism. We undergo the sacrament of reconciliation. As long as you meet with a priest, confess your sins, and express genuine contrition, you are absolved of those sins in the eyes of the church. At least I think that's how it works, I'm pretty lapsed these days.As long as you accept Jesus after the fact, it'sokaynot a barrier to heaven, amirite @Marciano490?
What if you were a catholic before committing a murder? Can you get out of hell free by accepting Jesus again?
(This thread's about to get fun.)
Pretty much. Here's an interesting note from PFT on incarceration in MA being hazardous to your health:Yeah. Lots of luck with that. Qualified immunity and no real damages?
Apparently he saw a prison production of Hamlet a couple weeks ago, amirite @Monbo JumboThe thought is if you commit murder you can repent for that sin while you obviously can't do that if you commit suicide.
That's not our bag, Baby. Sola fide is for weak sister Prottys.As long as you accept Jesus after the fact, it'sokaynot a barrier to heaven, amirite @Marciano490?
Maybe Hernandez was just predestined for Heaven?That's not our bag, Baby. Sola fide is for weak sister Prottys.
Slippery floor. Harder to support yourself with your feet.Can someone explain the whole soap thing?
So you die. Dude was serious about getting to heaven.Slippery floor. Harder to support yourself with your feet.
That's not true in the Catholic church. Vatican II states:Yet those who dont go to church (and are presumably decent people IE no murders) wont get to heaven.
The non-Christian may not be blamed for his ignorance of Christ and his Church; salvation is open to him also, if he seeks God sincerely and if he follows the commands of his conscience, for through this means the Holy Ghost acts upon all men; this divine action is not confined within the limited boundaries of the visible Church.
Yo Adrian?So, Adrian Hernandez found guilty, not guilty, God? and dead.
Legally required but never available.Whats the drug policy in hell?
Just as soon as they can get their hands on it
Aaron Hernandez's attorney says the state medical examiner's office is illegally withholding his client's brain
[conspiracy]must be spackling the bullet hole[/conspiracy]
Faith or works? Deathbed conversions are still the rage.As long as you accept Jesus after the fact, it'sokaynot a barrier to heaven, amirite @Marciano490?
What if you were a catholic before committing a murder? Can you get out of hell free by accepting Jesus again?
(This thread's about to get fun.)
Slip sliding away.Can someone explain the whole soap thing?
Ward's lawyer is asking the Patriots and the NFL Players Association to voluntarily give her whatever money Hernandez might still be owed.
Attorney Doug Sheff told reporters he had issued a "friendly challenge" to the Patriots, who cut the tight end in 2013, the same year he killed Odin Lloyd.
Sheff said he thinks the team might have owed Hernandez up to $6 million. The suit seeks to recover that plus proceeds from the eventual sale of Hernandez's $1.3 million home, a Hummer and any other assets.
The team didn't immediately comment on his request.