Deleted Text May Clear Aaron Hernandez In Double-Murder Case

Back in 2015, former New England Patriots tight-end, Aaron Hernandez, was sentenced to life in prison without parole after a jury found him guilty of first-degree murder in the death of Odin Lloyd, the boyfriend of his fiancee’s sister.

A year prior to the guilty verdict, Hernandez was indicted on additional murder charges, in a separate case stemming from the 2012 double-homicide of Daniel de Abreu, 29, and Safiro Furtado, 28. However, based on recently introduced evidence, sources believe Hernandez has a chance to be cleared of the double-murder charges.

On Thursday, Hernandez’s counsel, Jose Baez, who was the lead attorney for Casey Anthony, introduced a deleted text message from Alexander Bradley to his lawyer. According to reports, Bradley testified in civil court that Hernandez shot him in the face months after he witnessed Hernandez pull the trigger in the double-murder. In the text, Bradley is suggesting to his lawyer that he didn’t know who shot him, seven months after he witnessed the murder of de Abreu and Furtado.

Bradley tells Baez that he did not recall deleting the text from July 5, 2013, prior to turning his phone over to authorities.

Last Monday, Bradley took the stand against Hernandez, telling jurors that the NFL Baller shot him in the face after he referenced the double-homicide in Boston.  According to Bradley, he and Hernandez were leaving a strip club in Florida when Hernandez became paranoid that undercover cops were following him.

“I said, ‘If they are, it’s because of the stupid shit you did in Boston,’ ” Bradley testified. “He became standoffish. He became upset.”

Bradley said he fell asleep later, only to wake up to Hernandez pointing a gun “right between my eyebrows.”

However, in his 2013 text message, Bradley wrote his lawyer, “Now u sure once I withdraw this lawsuit I wont be held on perjury after I tell the truth about me not recalling anything about who shot me.”

Bradley explains that the text message was misunderstood and he just wanted to figure out a way to explain to a pending grand jury that unsure who shot him in the face to spare Hernandez criminal charges, without facing perjury charges due to his civil suit against Hernandez, where he says the Baller shot him.

“I was trying to figure out how I could testify without getting him criminally [charged],” Bradley testified. “My issue [was that] I would essentially perjure myself if I file in a civil matter that Mr. Hernandez shot me and then I go to the grand jury and say I don’t know who shot me.”

It will be interesting to see how this all plays out.