The murder trial of former New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez is almost unrelentingly grim, a story of a brutal, undignified killing. One brief moment of levity came during Thursday's session, and it tied directly to Hernandez's former team.
Massachusetts state policeman Timothy Dowd was on the stand testifying about tire inflation when James Sultan, one of Hernandez's attorneys, offered up one last question: “Did you ever receive training in football deflation devices?”
That was a reference, of course, to the deflate-gate controversy that swirled around the Patriots in the wake of their AFC championship victory a few weeks back. The NFL found that several of the Patriots' balls used in the game had been deflated beneath regulation PSI levels.
The officer did not appear to respond to the joke in kind, and left the stand shortly thereafter.
Hernandez is on trial in Bristol County (Mass.) Superior Court for the June 2013 murder of Odin Lloyd, a semi-pro football player who was found shot dead in a North Attleboro, Mass., industrial park.
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