BOSTON – Bill Belichick was able to avoid testifying for the defense in Aaron Hernandez’s double-murder trial in part because the golf course community in which he lives made it a challenge for a subpoena to be served to him.
Good blocking, if you will.
Jose Baez, Hernandez’s defense attorney, wanted to call Belichick as, presumably, a character witness for the defense. Hernandez is standing trial for the 2012 murders of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado in a 2012 Boston drive-by shooting. The jury is in its fifth full day of deliberations at Suffolk County Court.