something good has happened, but the reality of going back to prison and being there for life or for a very long period of time takes an emotional toll and they feel kind of hopeless and helpless and they end their lives. >> and this was for life without the possibility of parole. ben, how have the patriots handled this really over the years and right up until this morning? bill belichick was asked about the acquittal last year and he called the whole hernandez episode a tragedy. >> yeah. certainly. the patriots have really washed their hands clean of aaron hernandez ever since we saw him getting hauled away in handcuffs in june 2013. at that point when the patriots released him minutes after that image, they didn't know he would be charged with murder. they thought it would be accessory or he was a part of it. they didn't realize he was the ring leader of that whole episode. they had a program where you could trade in your hernandez