BOSTON (AP) — Former NFL star Aaron Hernandez ‘‘took pleasure’’ in gunning down two men in 2012 because he felt disrespected after one of them accidentally spilled his drink at a nightclub, a prosecutor said Thursday during closing arguments at Hernandez’s double-murder trial.
But Hernandez’s lawyer, Jose Baez, told the jury that the real killer is Hernandez’s former friend and the prosecution’s star witness, Alexander Bradley. Baez called Bradley a ‘‘liar, ‘‘perjurer’’ and ‘‘parasite’’ who got the ‘‘deal of a lifetime’’ from prosecutors after he named Hernandez as the shooter.
The jury was expected to begin deliberations Friday after hearing final instructions on the law from the judge.