Following his suicide, Aaron Hernandez's lawyers will seek to have his 2015 first-degree murder conviction vacated.
According to Bob McGovern of the Boston Herald, attorney John M. Thompson intends to pursue the matter: "I was doing research this morning. The first thing we have to do is get a death certificate. Once we have the official documentation, we will file the motion and see whether it's contested."
Per ESPN.com, Hernandez was found in his prison cell early Wednesday morning and pronounced dead shortly thereafter.
Per McGovern, former Supreme Judicial Court Justice John Greaney explained the grounds on which the conviction could be vacated: "It goes way back to the early days of common law: Until your conviction is final, you haven't been considered convicted.