Crime & Safety

Hernandez Double Murder Trial Moved to Next Year

The former New England Patriots player will face the double murder charges in January.

A Boston judge has approved a delay in Aaron Hernandez’s double murder trial.

On Tuesday, the trial was delayed by seven weeks after prosecutors and lawyers for Hernandez spent two hours in a closed-door hearing over access to physical evidence according to the Boston Globe.

Hernandez is charged in the 2012 slaying of two Boston men he encountered in a Boston nightclub.

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The trial will now start in January 2016.

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