no civil case. looks like Aaron was looking out for the family...
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.
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.