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Tattoos, drugs on docket for ex-NFL star Hernandez's murder trial

BOSTON, March 1 (Reuters) - Former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez's tattoos and history of drug use could be among the evidence presented at the convicted killer's second murder trial, which gets under way in Boston on Wednesday with opening arguments.

Prosecutors charge that the 27-year-old former tight end gunned down two Cape Verdean men outside a Boston nightclub in May 2012 after one of them unwittingly spilled a drink on him. Those killings allegedly came a year before Hernandez shot dead an acquaintance at an industrial park near his North Attleborough, Massachusetts, home.

Hernandez is currently serving a life sentence after being found guilty of the 2013 North Attleborough murder.