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19th April 2017
12:28pm BST

Hernandez was only last week acquitted of double murder charges, as a not guilty verdict was read out on the charges of the 2012 homicides of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado.
Hernandez was already serving a mandatory life sentence for his first-degree murder of semi-professional football player Odin Lloyd in 2013, for which Hernandez was convicted in April, 2015.
The 27-year-old, who signed a deal worth $40 million with the Patriots in 2012, stood little to no chance of a successful appeal for the Lloyd murder in spite of his request for a new trial.Explore more on these topics: