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Prosecutors don’t say. They do add that Katy wrote to Hernandez, but the letters “were subsequently destroyed by the defendant”.
The woman’s identity has been redacted in court documents, in which she is referred to by the pseudonym “Katy”.
James Sultan, one of Hernandez’s lawyers, wants to question the anonymous woman under oath, an endeavor McCauley dubbed an “unwarranted fishing expedition”.
Hernandez, 25, was convicted of first-degree murder in the 2013 death of Lloyd, a semipro football player who was dating the sister of Hernandez’s fiancee.
Mention of that case was barred at the Lloyd murder trial. In a court filing last week, Sultan acknowledged that the tipster had “extensive personal contact” with his client which is “clearly relevant to this individual’s credibility”.
The Boston Herald reports prosecutors have found that the woman “had an ongoing sexually explicit relationship with the defendant prior to and during the trial”. It also will invite curiosity regarding the visitation rules at the jail where Hernandez was held before and during trial.
He says she does not work with the juror as she claimed, and her claims should not be taken seriously.
The anonymous tipster who accused one of Aaron Hernandez’s jurors of lying to secure a place on the jury had an “ongoing sexually explicit relationship” with the former New England Patriots tight end before and during his murder trial, prosecutors said Monday.
Hernandez and Jenkins have a young daughter together.
The newspaper said Jenkins wore a gold wedding band along with a gold-and-diamond engagement ring on her left hand.
A prisons spokesman tells The Associated Press there’s no record Hernandez has gotten married or requested to get married. Hernandez is awaiting a Boston trial on those charges, to which he has pleaded not guilty.