Posted on 08/19/2018 3:29:37 PM PDT by heterosupremacist
When attorney Jose Baez first met Aaron Hernandez in 2016, the former NFL star was already serving life in prison.
The then-26-year-old had been arrested for the murder of Odin Lloyd, an acquaintance, in 2013, after three seasons with the New England Patriots. Now, he needed a lawyer for another indictment, involving an earlier double-homicide.
Baez took the case, and grew close with the athlete. He helped Hernandez win an acquittal on April 14, 2017, but days later, on April 19, the 27-year-old hanged himself in his cell.
A brain scan revealed that the former tight-end had suffered severe brain injuries consistent with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), due to repeated head blows while playing football. Doctors said that it was the most severe case they had seen in someone so young.
Baez has chronicled the last year of his client’s life in “Unnecessary Roughness: Inside the Trial and Final Days of Aaron Hernandez” (Hachette Books), out Tuesday. Among the tome’s revelations are three notes found after Hernandez’s death, addressed to his daughter Avielle Jenkins-Hernandez, now 5, fiancée Shayanna Jenkins, now 29, and Baez himself.
“[Hernandez] wrote three letters the night he died, letters discovered in his cell and released to us by corrections officials a few days after his death,” said Baez.
For the first time, The Post can reveal those suicide notes. In highlighted text, Baez deciphers the hidden meanings behind Hernandez’s words...
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Brain damaged seriously disturbed individual.Then again never saw a suicide note that was worth reading. Out of touch with reality.
I don’t care why he killed himself.
Yeah. Reaching out to rap artists. Real piece of work.
Lots of guys get their heads scrambled in places like the sandbox. Some kill themselves. Not so many kill others and try to hide the evidence.
Just a POS we’re better off without.
Delusional. Murderer. Closet homosexual. No sympathy for this guy. They suspect he killed someone back when he was in college, but have not nailed it down.
He was a serial killer with a least three dead bodies to his name.
Is Baez really Q?
Otherwise why Needing to decipher the notes?
Rule 190
hear everything
believe nothing
“A brain scan revealed that the former tight-end had suffered severe brain injuries consistent with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), due to repeated head blows while playing football. “
Gang bangin thuggery could have also been involved.
This guy was a violent gang banger before the head blows.
No movement when challenged. Figure had a weird purplish tinge.
She had hanged herself. Note was still in the typewriter, all gibberish.
I don't buy this CTE. Otherwise, why didn't it affect the players from the early years through the 80s? They had none of the rules and safety advances that players today have now.
why didn’t it affect the players from the early years through the 80s? They had none of the rules and safety advances that players today have now.
I don’t know where I stand on this issue, but some believe the increase in concussions are related to technological advances in safety equipment, especially helmets.
The launch into each other head-first, and they think their helmets will protect them. Not always...
They are trying to blame it on CTE.
I think he was simply a violent psychopath, and would have been had he not played football in college or the pros.
Thought it said Joan Beaz. Would've made total sense.
Full of himself
I agree with that.
Dude was nuts.
CTE belongs in the category of the “settled sciences” Global warming, peak oil and now of course brain damage that can be found after death from hitting ones head. When are they going to be testing boxers, soccer players, basketball players, bicycle riders, and gramama?
I think if this is a real phenomenon, it may be the result of childhood vaccinations or newer analgesics, like ibuprofen, advil or tylenol. Maybe even HGH or steroids.
I think CTE is legit. Lots of NFL players left with dementia and depression issues. Jim McMahon, famed Bears QB from the 80s, has dementia. It has seemed to really get worse since the 90s though.
Blaming football for his brain condition ignores the drug abusing gangster wannabe’s lifestyle.
Urban Meyer knew all about this guy when he came to UF.
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