Earlier this month, Aaron Hernandez’s lawyers submitted new filings in court that aim to have the former New England Patriots tight end’s murder conviction overturned. Apparently there is an issue with one of the jurors in the case, and that juror’s ability to be impartial was questioned by way of an anonymous phone call.
Redacted court documents that were made public on Monday show that one of Hernandez’s lawyers, James Sultan, says he spoke with an anonymous caller four times starting the day after Hernandez was convicted, which was April 15. The caller allegedly told Sultan that one of the jurors was present for a discussion about the 2012 double murder in Boston that Hernandez has been charged with.