December 20
Hernandez lawyer suggests Russians hacked jailhouse calls
Erin Tiernan
The former Patriots star is awaiting trial on double murder charges.
Aaron Hernandez in court in April 2015 during the Odin Lloyd trial.
A lawyer for Aaron Hernandez suggested Tuesday that the Russians could be behind his client's leaked jailhouse phone calls in 2014.
"It could be a Russian hacker, with all respect, like WikiLeaks, who was able to backdoor into the system," George Leontire, Hernandez's lawyer, said during a pretrial hearing at Suffolk County Superior Court.
The former New England Patriots tight end was back in court for a hearing on his upcoming double murder trial. He is accused of fatally shooting two men he allegedly bumped into at a Boston nightclub in 2012.
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