DA Quinn reflects on Hernandez trial, conviction
By News Staff
After the guilty verdict for Aaron Hernandez came down, Bristol County District Attorney Tom Quinn spoke with ABC6 about the trial.
Seven days is a long time to wait for a verdict, but District Attorney Quinn says he was not surprised by the length of time or the murder conviction.
He is happy with the result, telling us the jury did a good job not taking the former Patriot’s celebrity status into account.
“But in the end he was a man charged with a serious crime. And a man was convicted who brutally murdered another man and that’s what this case was about. Not the Patriots. Not his high school career or what a great athlete he was because that wasn’t the issue. In the end he was a man and he got convicted the way any man should when the evidence is sufficient to convict.”
District Attorney Quinn’s office has a good relationship with Suffolk County, where Hernandez is still on the hook for the 2012 Boston double murder of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado. They were shot to death while stopped at a traffic light in the city’s South End.
He has pleaded not guilty in that crime. Bristol County will assist prosecutors there with whatever they can.
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