By Scott Malone
BOSTON, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Massachusetts prosecutors said on Monday that an anonymous caller, who told lawyers for former NFL star Aaron Hernandez that one of the jurors who found him guilty of murder should have been disqualified, had a sexual relationship with the athlete.
The former New England Patriots tight end was found guilty in April of murdering an acquaintance, Odin Lloyd, in 2013, and sentenced to life in prison at the end of the first of two murder trials he will face this year.
Following his conviction, his lawyers told the court they had been called by a person who gave her name only as "Katy," who they said claimed to have known one of the jurors who found Hernandez guilty and to have also known that the juror was aware that Hernandez was also charged with a 2012 double homicide.