by Tony Renteria

You talk about circumstantial evidence in the Aaron Hernandez trial the prosecuting lawyer said that circumstantial evidence could be just as powerful as regular evidence. If you go to bed at night and you wake up and there is snow on the ground you know it snowed in the middle of the night even though you didn’t see it that’s kind of the context of what were talking about.

There is so much circumstantial evidence against Hernandez it’s just obvious that he committed this crime. You have to think of the evidence as the straw that breaks the camel’s back. There was just so much of this and that that each one of those degrees of evidence just kind of overwhelmed the jury where he was at the time of the crime.

There was so much to overcome and Hernandez never looked like an innocent guy during the trial he looked like a well dressed thug. He never showed any emotion during the trial and even when the verdict was read. When you listen to what the jury said they took a long time to decide only because there were so many charges to sort out.

There were two other friends with Hernandez during the shooting and there was the question of the three who was the trigger man in killing Hernandez’ associate Odin Lloyd? That should be answered by the fact that Hernandez was convicted for first degree murder and the prosecution established that it’s not like he wasn’t there and he has another murder charge coming from a double homicide that is being brought forward.

Hernandez has a second murder charge coming from a double homicide from what the legal experts say the second murder charge is more convincing than the first one. So it’s not like this guy was a good guy and he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. He was a bad guy the only thing prior to him being found out was all he could do is catch a football.

How important was the circumstantial evidence was? There were so many important pieces of evidence and they were all important, there were so many important pieces. It wasn’t as though the prosecution had to have a smoking gun that’s how important the circumstantial evidence was. They never had the murder weapon and they still got a first degree murder conviction.

Tony Renteria covers the NFL for http://www.sportsradioservice.com listen to his podcast regarding the Aaron Hernandez trial below