Hours after announcing a guilty verdict on Wednesday, jurors in the Aaron Hernandez murder trial said they were riveted by the April 1 testimony of New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft.
One juror called Kraft's testimony "some of the most compelling testimony" of the some 135 witnesses who took the stand during the nine-week trial.
Kraft was asked about the events of June 19, which was two days after the killing. The Patriots owner said he found Hernandez in a weight room working out at the team's facility and pulled him into an adjacent office for a private talk.
"He said he was not involved," Kraft said when questioned by the prosecution, which had said Hernandez was at a bar earlier in that evening, then drove to Boston with two friends, picked up Lloyd and killed him in an industrial park.
"That he was innocent and that he hoped that the time of the murder incident came out because he said he was in a club."
That piece of testimony was key, jurors said.
"The one part for me was Aaron's alleged statement that he wished the time that Odin was murdered be made public because he was at a club at that time," one juror said. "To this day, we just went through a three-month trial, this is now a year and a half or two years later, and we still don't know the exact time of Odin's murder, specifically. So I don't know how Aaron would have had that information two years ago. Even today, after medical examiners' review, we still don't have that information."
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