Say what you will about Aaron Hernandez but he did something right in the end.
Things were looking up for former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez. After losing his first murder trial, he just beat double-murder charges in his latest trail. He had a new lawyer with momentum to fight to get his prior conviction overturned.
So you would think the the smiles and the flashed, particularly at his daughter, were genuine. But the walls were closing in financially as defending himself has cost a lot of money. And his new lawyer wasn’t looking to try to get his conviction overturned for free.
That made Hernandez think about how his daughter and fiancee would do if he lost the appeal. He would locked up and unable to provide for them with their funds dwindled down. If he didn’t always know. he found out at some point about the “abatement ab initio.”
That is a Massachusetts law that wipes clean any conviction if the defendant dies while it’s under appeal. That’s all the motivation Hernandez would need to commit suicide. There are reports out there that say the Patriots now owe Hernandez’ estate $15 million.
They at least owe Hernandez’s estate the $3.25 million signing bonus and $2.5 million base salary they withheld back in 2013. And his three years in the NFL, qualify him for a pension. So his beautiful little girl doesn’t have to suffer for what he may or may not have done.
Remember, he has clean record now.
Hernandez got this one right for his family.