Famed attorney Jose Baez is batting down reports that one of the three letters found alongside the body of his late client, Aaron Hernandez, was addressed to a male lover. Baez dismissed the claim as unfounded, telling TMZ on Monday, April 24, that "Rumors of letters to a gay lover, in or out of prison, are false."
Last week Hernandez was found hanged in his prison cell, only five days after he was acquitted of a double homicide charge that dated back to a pair of slayings that took place in Boston in 2012. Hernandez was still serving life for the murder of his fiancee's sister's boyfriend, Odin Lloyd in 2007, but there was increasing talk that he might actually successfully appeal that case, with Baez having gone public to predict that he was confident he could get the former Patriots star out of prison should he be hired to defend him. Given the glimmer of hope that appeared to exist for Hernandez, many have questioned whether his death was a suicide given its timing.
Baez says he isn't prepared to insist it a probability that Hernandez was murdered, but neither will he rule out that he killed himself, saying, "There is still plenty we are investigating." But he says that the rumors of letters that might implicate Hernandez leading a bisexual lifestyle [originally cited by The Daily Mail] have absolutely no truth to them. "These are malicious leaks used to tarnish somebody who is dead," he says.
Source: tmz.com
