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Aaron Hernandez's Lawyer Blames His Death on CTE, Maintains New England Patriot Wasn't Guilty of Murder

Aaron Hernandez's lawyer thinks there were a lot of untruths spread about his client, who died by suicide last year in a Massachusetts prison while serving a life sentence for murder.

Jose Baez, the lawyer for the former New England Patriots tight end, said in an interview with Fox News that the end of Hernandez's life was happy and that he seemed to have hope after being acquitted of a separate double murder charge. Baez—who maintained in the interview that Hernandez was not guilty of murder—claimed the public's apparent misconceptions led him to participate in a documentary series on the Oxygen channel about his former client.