Jury selection in the murder trial of a friend of former New England Patriots player, Aaron Hernandez, is getting started. The trial of Ernest Wallace gets underway on Thursday in Dall River Superior Court in Massachusetts for the murder of Odin Lloyd.
According to Herald News, the jury selection will begin in Thursday for Ernest Wallace, a friend of Aaron Hernandez. The potential jurors will also be arriving on Thursday and Friday at the Fall River Justice Center.
They will be filling out some questionnaires on their knowledge of the case, the witness, and any feelings they developed about the accusations made. Prosecutors and Wallace's attorney will also be reviewing the questionnaires due next Tuesday and the following day, they will start to question the potential jurors in the courtroom.
Wallace will stand in a trial for murder. He faces the same murder charges Hernandez was sentenced to, a life in prison without the possibility of parole for, as reported by Latin Post.
He is charged in connection to the June 17, 2013 homicide of Odin Llyod in North Attleborough. Prosecutors alleged that Wallace accompanied Hernandez and Carlos Ortiz in picking up Llyod at his home in Dorchester, and then bringing him back to North Attleborough.
Llyod was said to be shot at least five times at point-blank range in the North Attleborough Industrial Park. A teenager jogging home discovered his body about 15 hours later.
Lloyd was allegedly dating the sister of Hernandez's fiancée. Hernandez was convicted with the first-degree murder in Lloyd's killing in April 2015. He was also sentenced to life in prison without parole, as claimed by Courant.
Police, on the other hand, reportedly claimed that Wallace could not believe what was happening. He allegedly thought that he was turning his life around and was going to be Hernandez's driver and later on muttered that someone had "put a hex on him."
Meanwhile, opening statements in Wallace's trial will be initiated after the attorneys complete the jury selection. But Wallace still constantly proclaims his innocence of the murder of Odin Lloyd.
