Judge in Hernandez trial reverses course on mention of Odin Lloyd text messages
Posted by Josh Alper on February 23, 2015, 1:46 PM EST
Hernandez Murder Trial
AP
On Friday, Judge E. Susan Garsh blocked the prosecution in the Aaron Hernandez murder trial from mentioning that Odin Lloyd sent four text messages to his sister shortly before he was killed.
The Associated Press reported that prosecutor Bill McCauley “became agitated” while objecting to that ruling and Garsh has come around to his point of view. On Monday, the Boston Globe reports that she said she’d “given more thought” to the issue over the weekend and decided that Lloyd’s sister Shaquilla Thibou can mention the messages during her testimony to corroborate that Lloyd sent them.
Neither Thibou nor anyone else can mention the content of those messages and Thibou cannot testify about any reaction she had to those messages. The messages read “U saw who I was with,” “Nfl” and “just so U know.”
Monday also brought testimony from people who were working at the industrial park where Lloyd’s body was found at the time prosecutors believe he was killed. Both Barbara Chan and Michael Ribero testified that they heard several “loud bangs” around the time it is believed that Lloyd was shot.
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