A Fall River Superior Court Judge has indefinitely postponed Aaron Hernandez's upcoming pretrial hearing so the family of murder victim Odin Lloyd can attend.
The former New England Patriots tight end was scheduled to appear in court on Dec. 13, but Judge E. Susan Garsh has agreed to allow prosecutors requests to move those proceedings to a later date.
According to the Boston Herald, Garsh warned prosecutors and attorneys for Hernandez the hearing will still he held as originally scheduled if the two sides are not able to reach accord on a new date before then.
Meanwhile, the Bristol County District Attorney's Office said it filed paperwork that was due at 2 p.m. Monday in Shayanna Jenkins' perjury case. The Herald reports a so-called Bill of Particulars is supposed to explain the prosecution's theory of how Jenkins, 24, allegedly lied to a grand jury investigating Lloyd's June 17 murder in North Attleborough.
"I have no idea what prosecutors consider to be perjury here," Jenkins' lawyer, Janice Bassil, told the court during a Nov. 6 motion hearing in Fall River Superior Court.
During the same hearing, First Assistant District Attorney William McCauley claimed Jenkins made "numerous false statements" to conceal evidence and cover up for her boyfriend, Hernandez, who is charged with first-degree murder in the execution-style slaying.
Prosecutors must also respond to a Nov. 15 motion filed by Hernandez' attorneys that reinstates their request for a formal gag order based on accusations the D.A's office leaked prejudicial information to the media.
In particular, lawyers for Hernandez's accuse prosecutors of tipping off the media that Hernandez's friend, Miami Dolphins center Michael Pouncey, would be subpoenaed to testify before the grand jury when the Dolphins traveled to Foxboro on Oct. 27 to play the Patriots.
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