FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) -- A friend of former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez is expected to change his not guilty plea in the 2013 shooting death of semi-professional football player Odin Lloyd.
Carlos Ortiz is set to go on trial in October for first-degree murder, but now his lawyers will be in Bristol Superior Court in Connecticut on Monday for a change of plea hearing.
Hernandez, Ortiz and Ernest Wallace - all friends from Bristol, Connecticut - were all initially charged with murder.
Hernandez was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole last year.