based on some of the limitations that were given to the prosecution that the jury would struggle and that they were in fact struggling with reaching the correct verdict in this case. and murder one certainly absolutely murder two is the correct verdict as far as i m concerned. i m just looking at the pictures of aaron hernandez sitting there handcuffed and deputy sheriffs surrounding him. i would assume they are doing that i would assume they re doing that paul because you never know what aaron hernandez could do after such a verdict is read in court. this is always the most solemn scene in a courtroom. danny has seen it as well. when that conviction is announced, the court officers surround the defendant even if he s already in custody. now there s even more of a chance that before the verdict. you feel them creeping up behind. it s unnerving. if he s out an bail cuffs go
commonwealth of massachusetts. all right. we ll let you get back inside that courtroom. thank you very much for a job well done. paul just explain for our audience why there s no death penalty in this case and there is a death penalty possibility in the tsarnaev case. this case is being tried in superior court of massachusetts. it s the local state court. and the people of massachusetts and the courts in massachusetts have decided no death penalty. the most severe sentence for murder in massachusetts is life without parole. now, the tsarnaev case the boston bombing case is being tried in federal court and under federal law, the death penalty can be imposed on a variety of offenses and even though massachusetts citizens will actually sit on that jury federal law is applied and the death penalty is a possibility in that case. okay. thank you for clarifying. so everybody understands what s going down. so the jury obviously won t have any part in the sentencing phase of the hernandez
frankly, carol, about the disparity between what you and i and everybody at home knew about hernandez. the fact that he had another double homicide backed up against this one where he was accused of killing two people outside a nightclub here in boston over a night inside of a club and another case where he s accused of assaulting a correction officer and inmate in prison. the fact that his fiance is charged with lying to the grand jury 20 times. we know all of these things about him that the jury either didn t know or wasn t allowed to consider. you talked earlier about the fact that he had showed odin lloyd the spot and that did come in but what he wasn t allowed to expound upon during the trial was the fact that the spot was the spot that he was referring to where he apparently and is accused of shooting and killing two people in a boston case that s going to happen right after this one. and so that would have gone
her arms as though to say thank you. at that exact same moment the fiance and the mother of aaron hernandez were openly weeping in court holding onto each other. aaron hernandez looking back at them and mouthing the words be strong. it s okay at various intervals. himself listening to the jury being polled taking deep breaths and letting it out. and looking certainly the most serious i have ever seen him look during the course of this entire trial that began back in january. i will say this. one of the good friends of the victim in this case i remember said these words to me. even if we get justice, do we really win? i don t think so. that s what he said. he s lost his friend no matter what. a very dramatic day and now comes the sentencing.
verdict count by count. and the judge has already admonished the folks in the courtroom that she does not want any outburst. she does not want there to be a reaction. and i would imagine that you will hear gasps or some sort of reaction because it is very hard for people to contain themselves in a case that s this emotional and that s been going on for this long carol. absolutely. as i said, our susan candiotti is inside that courtroom awaiting that verdict. she did tweet us some information. aaron hernandez s fiance and mother both inside the courtroom awaiting that verdict. both appear nervous. susan says they are twitching their legs. also odin lloyd s family is present. and that family appears very anxious. and for all of the family members involved it s just got to be agonizing. having covered so many high-profile trials i can t express the feeling in a courtroom when you know a