Aaron Hernandez was in court Monday facing charges of assault and battery and making threats. The charges stem from an incident in which he attacked a fellow inmate and threatened a guard while he was being held in the Dartmouth County Jail. He pleaded not guilty to those charges.
Meanwhile, defense attorneys for the former NFL player were in a pre-trial hearing Monday before Judge E. Susan Garsh urging the judge to dismiss the charges against Hernandez in the Odin Lloyd murder case. Hernandez's attorney, James Sultan said the case against his client was "woefully lacking."
A tentative trial date on the Lloyd charges is set for October 6. Hernandez pleaded not guilty in September 2013 to the murder of Odin Lloyd who was found dead near Hernandez's home in June 2013.
Hernandez is due back in court on Wednesday afternoon in Suffolk Superior Court to be arraigned on double murder charges. He is accused of gunning down two men in 2012 after an altercation inside a Boston nightclub.
Prosecutors allege that after the incident in the club involving the victims Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado, Hernandez followed them in an SUV, pulled up alongside them when their car stopped at a red light and shot the two victims and a surviving third victim.
The double murder is believed to be a stronger case with more compelling evidence. Hernandez has been in jail without bail since June 2013.
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