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Before I ever heard the actual arrest statistics, the number of former players of his who are speaking out about what the culture was seemed pretty revealing. The Sporting News article which was linked to earlier (and which incidentally was written a year before the Odin Lloyd murder) was illuminating and barely touched on arrest statistics.
I agree. I have zero sympathy for him (actually, on the sympathy scale, I probably go into the negative on this one), but I do wonder what is going through his little head right about now. It's gotta suck.
That will be the defense's last line of defense. He has been perceived as guilty since he was arrested and no one will be able to be an unbiased juror.
It's gotta suck real bad when you are used to sleeping in a multi million dollar home. Man, what a #### head.
There is stupid and then there is mean. At some point the only answer to the question as to why someone would be so stupid is that they are just that damn ugly on the inside.
Half the money goes to Nike....so I thought the number sounder high also. They would have given away roughly 5500 jerseys to hit $250k.PatsFanCT said:
The Patriots are still buying 1200 Jerseys and giving them away for free. Without making the markup profit. So I'm missing why cstu is calling BS on it.
So They claim to have lost 250k on swapping over 1200 Jersey's. Take 250,000 and divide it by 1300 jersey's to be safe and that comes to alittle more than $192 per swap.
its turning into a witch hunt but so far the only thing I have seen thats really questionable about the way people are treating Hernandez is the Patriots saying their going to not payout the portion of the contract they signed. As of now he not convicted of a crime and they have no right to fight that, yet. The Patriots are treating him as if hes been sentenced to death.
1200 jerseys costs them $54,000.
They broke the jersey sales record for a year...which is not surprising considering the transition and the major trades and draft picks....so I'd estimate $100m. Guarantee may be more than that though.
That's just a portion of the cost to Nike. They pay a royalty, overhead, etc....which adds up quickly. Roughly costs them $35 or so per jersey at the end of the day.
1. Circumstantial evidence is often the best kind.
I believe the final tally was 2500 jerseys swapped over the two days, or about $100 per jersey to get to the $250k. There were 1200 jerseys swapped by 5 pm on the first day alone.
I don't think the name stitching is included in everyone's pricing.
Common sense in looking at everything as a whole.
Here's one cynical approach: Hernandez has enough money, rep (good and bad) and influence to get million dollar lawyers, to bring up ruined DNA evidence from the rental or elsewhere, to hush up witnesses and maybe even intimidate others, and possibly wow over jurors.
So do the rest of us. He's still innocent in the eyes of the law. When more facts are presented, we have the ability to change our mind. The Patriots don't have to keep him on their team and the products he endorses don't have to keep him as the face of their brand. Everyone has rights.
The lawyers are the winners in this case. They will take every penny he has and he may go free. That's his best case scenario. Even then, he probalby will never play again and thus have nothing. End result will be that he finds his way back in prison. The loser may as well just hang himself and get it over with.
Our opinions of his guilt or innocence are irrelevant. Rock-solid evidence isn't always as rock-solid when picked apart by the Defense. Please see OJ Simpson, Casey Anthony, etc.
I don't think he will walk. They have other gun charges that could land him in jail.
I don't see anyone having presented any evidence at all that Hernandez pulled the trigger. Other than the speculative uncorroborated testimony of an accomplice, who may have pulled the trigger himself and is now taking advantage of the massive overreach of the police in this case to pin it on the highest-profile suspect instead of the actually guilty one.
You do know that he didn’t have to pull the one who pulled the trigger in order for him to be found guilty right?
Not agreeing or disagreeing here but the highest profile suspect is probably the guy that the MA state police would be most wary of and careful of ensuring proof behind their allegations before moving forward, not the other way around.
I have heard attorneys in the media suggest that if more than one person is involved in a murder, unless one immediately reported it, than anyone involved and at the scene could be charged with the murder no matter who actually committed it. In this case, the prosecution can charge all three with murder even if only one of them pulled the trigger. And from what was said by the legal experts I heard, it sounds like they would not have to prove who did the actual killing (so basically it would be guilt by association, participating in the murder, and conspiring to commit murder, and covering it up.
Uncorroborated accomplice testimony. Of hearsay. Great.
