Posted on 04/19/2017 2:31:34 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Aaron Hernandez’s murder conviction is expected to be dismissed posthumously because of a legal rule called “abatement.”
That would mean, legally speaking, Aaron Hernandez died an innocent man.
Hernandez hanged himself in his prison cell and was found dead early Wednesday morning, the Massachusetts Department of Correction said. Hernandez had been serving a sentence of life in prison without parole after being convicted of the June 2013 murder of Odin Lloyd.
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How is that possible?..............
He is dead Jim.
“How is that possible?..............”
Read the article. It is very clear.
no civil case. looks like Aaron was looking out for the family...
I read it.
It’s sounds like liberal claptrap.
Abatement means anyone who has any claims against the dead convict’s property estate because of the criminal conviction is now screwed, with no appeal..................
Just when you think it’s over the story takes another turn.
Just in time...
On the other hand, maybe Raymond Reddington gave him a choice...
“Abatement means anyone who has any claims against the dead convict’s property estate because of the criminal conviction is now screwed, with no appeal..................”
Criminal convictions do not secure civil claims. That would be a civil lawsuit. I don’t know if there are any. If there are, the suit rolls over to the estate.
no civil case. looks like Aaron was looking out for the family...
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There can still be a civil case, but the plaintiff can no longer use the conviction as a fact that he wronged the plaintiff. They’d have to establish it again from scratch.
This is assuming he had any assets left.
Don’t do it.
Great! The Raiders can sign him! He can be a decoy for the receivers. < /S >
It is not “quirky”. The criminal conviction was on appeal; never finalized.
Isn’t it ironic, don’t ya think?
I would guess there’s not much of an estate left.
Not true. It means that anybody having a civil suit will have a slightly more difficult time proving liability. A final unappealable conviction in a criminal case is pretty much iron clad proof of liability in a civil case because the standard for a criminal conviction is beyond a reasonable doubt. Now that final conviction in the criminal case is not available to any civil plaintiffs in the Hernandez case they will have to prove that he did the deed by a preponderance of the evidence, which should not be too difficult.
This seems like a goofy law to me.
“When I saw some of the s-— he was able to get away with [at Florida], we weren’t taking him. He actually thought he was going to get away with murder. He always thought he could beat the system, and when he got arrested I thought, ‘Well, the system finally caught up with him.’”
An NFL executive on Aaron Hernandez’s past
Ken Lay of the Enron scandal took the same route; supposedly died of a heart attack. Nearly $45M at stake, I suspect he’s alive and living overseas.
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