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Ex-NFL star Hernandez gets life in prison for 2013 killing

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Shayanna Jenkins, fiancee of former NFL player Aaron Hernandez, listens during the murder trial for …

FALL RIVER, Mass. (Reuters) - The jury in the murder trial of Aaron Hernandez began a seventh day of deliberations on Wednesday on whether the former National Football League player is guilty of murdering an acquaintance, the first of two murder trials he will face this year.

Jurors in Fall River, Massachusetts, have so far spent about 35 hours weighing whether Hernandez is guilty of murdering semi-professional football player Odin Lloyd in June 2013.