The Latest: Jury nears deliberations in ex-NFL star's trial (Yahoo Sports)

Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez looks back during his double murder trial in Suffolk Superior Court in Boston, Wednesday, April 5, 2017. Hernandez is standing trial for the July 2012 killings of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado, who he encountered in a Boston nightclub. The former NFL player is already serving a life sentence in the 2013 killing of semi-professional football player Odin Lloyd. (Nancy Lane/The Boston Herald via AP, Pool)

A prosecutor and a lawyer for ex-NFL star Aaron Hernandez have finished their closing arguments in his double-murder trial. In his final appeal to jurors, prosecutor Patrick Haggan said Hernandez gunned down two men in Boston in 2012 because he had ”an illogical sense of being disrespected.” He said Hernandez became enraged after one of the men had accidentally bumped into Hernandez at a nightclub and spilled his drink. In his closing argument, Hernandez’s lawyer called the state’s star witness the real killer.


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