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Hernandez, 25, a former tight end for the New England
Patriots, is accused of fatally shooting semiprofessional
football player Odin Lloyd in an industrial park near
Hernandez's Massachusetts home in June 2013.
If convicted of first-degree murder, Hernandez would be
sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. A
second-degree murder conviction would lead to a life sentence
with the possibility of parole after 15 years.
The trial at the Bristol County Superior Court in Fall River,
Massachusetts, is the first of two Hernandez faces this year.
After the jury in Fall River delivers a verdict, Hernandez will
face trial in Boston on charges of fatally shooting two Cape
Verdean men outside a nightclub in 2012.
(Reporting by Scott Malone; Editing by Bernadette Baum and
Jonathan Oatis)
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