Aaron Hernandez Fast Facts

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Updated 2:07 PM ET, Wed March 13, 2019

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Former NFL football player Aaron Hernandez attends his murder trial in Fall River, Massachusetts, on Thursday, January 29. The state accused Hernandez of orchestrating the shooting death of semi-pro player Odin Lloyd, the boyfriend of his fiancee's sister, in 2013. Hernandez pleaded not guilty to a charge of first-degree murder, but <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/15/us/aaron-hernandez-verdict/index.html" target="_blank">he was convicted</a> on Wednesday, April 15, and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.