Superior Court Judge Susan Garsh denied the request by the defense team of Aaron Hernandez to prevent a police surveillance video that shows Hernandez using a lawyer’s phone to call one of his co-defendants the day after he allegedly killed Odin Lloyd. The video was taken on June 18, 2013 in the parking lot of the North Attleborough police station the day after Lloyd was killed. The video showed Hernandez taking apart his phone then receiving a phone from his lawyer, Robert Jones. According to the prosecutors Hernandez used the phone to call co-defendant Ernest Wallace. Wallace and David Ortiz have pleaded not guilty to the killing, which prosecutors say Hernandez orchestrated. Judge Garsh said that the jury will not be told where the phone came from, just that it didn’t belong to Hernandez.
North Attleboro police Detective Daniel Arrighi also testified on Friday that he went to Hernandez’s house with a state trooper a few hours after Lloyd’s body was found in an industrial park near Hernandez’s home, on June 17. Arrighi said he knocked and rang the bell several times and received no answered even though there were lights on inside. Afterward he walked around the house before going to Hernandez’s next-door neighbor, Joe Judge, who was an assistant coach for the Patriots at that time. A little later Hernandez came out of his house. They asked him about the Chevy Suburban he had rented, and Hernandez said Lloyd had it. Hernandez was also asked when he last saw Lloyd, and told them it was June 16. According to Arrighi, Hernandez got agitated and asked, “What’s with all the questions?” Hernandez went inside and just before going inside, Arrighi testified, Hernandez said to them, “You guys aren’t coming in here.” After that Hernandez came back out and told them he would go to the police station to talk.
