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 The jury hearing the first murder trial Hernandez will face this
year saw video of the industrial park near the athlete's home in
North Attleborough, Massachusetts, where the body of Odin Lloyd was
found by a teenage jogger.
Trooper Michael Lombard described the scene as the court was shown
videos he recorded of Lloyd's body, face up with the right arm
outstretched.
"You could tell the tire impression was there first and the footwear
had trampled over that," Lombard testified at Massachusetts Superior
Court in Fall River, where testimony resumed on Wednesday after a
snowstorm canceled proceedings for two days.
Hernandez, 25, was a tight end with a $41 million contract when he
was cut from the team following his arrest on charges of murdering
Lloyd, a semiprofessional football player who was dating the sister
of Hernandez's fiancée at the time.
 Prosecutors say Hernandez and two friends, Carlos Ortiz and Ernest
Wallace, picked up Lloyd, 27, at his Boston home in the early hours
of June 17, 2013, and drove him to the industrial park where his
body was found later that day. Investigators have not found the gun
used in the killing.
Under cross-examination by defense attorney James Sultan, the
trooper acknowledged he did not videotape other footprints found at
the scene.
Wallace and Ortiz have also been charged in Lloyd's death and will
be tried separately. The three men have pleaded not guilty.
Hernandez's fiancée, Shayanna Jenkins, who has pleaded not guilty to
perjury charges for allegedly lying to a grand jury, was granted
immunity in the case on Tuesday. It remains unclear whether she will
testify.
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Her sister, Shaneah Jenkins, testified earlier that her boyfriend
and Hernandez had a cordial relationship and smoked marijuana
together, but were not close.
Hernandez will face a second trial later this year, on charges of
killing two Cape Verdean men outside a Boston nightclub in 2012.
A juror was excused on Wednesday due to what the judge described as
a "personal matter." That marks the second person excused from the
jury, leaving a panel of 16 people.
Testimony is set to resume on Friday.
(Editing by Scott Malone and Mohammad Zargham)
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