Famed defense attorney Jose Baez has a new book detailing his time representing Aaron Hernandez in his 2017 double-murder trial in Boston. Hernandez, a former star with the New England Patriots, was found not guilty of the twin killings but committed suicide days later while in a Massachusetts prison where he was serving a life sentence for the separate murder of Odin Lloyd.
There are a lot of stories in the book, “Unnecessary Roughness: Inside the Trial and Final Days of Aaron Hernandez,” including how in 2011 Hernandez sold his then jersey number (85) to new teammate Chad Ochocinco, and then used the money, $50,000, to float a wholesale drug purchase which later made Hernandez $70,000 in profit.