Prosecutor: Jury tipster wrote sexual letters to Aaron Hernandez
FALL RIVER, Mass. -- A Massachusetts prosecutor says an anonymous tipster who raised questions about a juror in the murder trial of former NFL star Aaron Hernandez had a sexually explicit relationship with him.
CBS Boston reports that prosecutor William McCauley says the woman wrote Hernandez sexually explicit letters before and during the trial.
The woman's identity has been redacted in court documents, in which she is referred to by the pseudonym "Katy." Hernandez's lawyer, James Sultan, said in a June filing that the tipster first called him to claim improper behavior by a juror on April 16, a day after a 12-person jury convicted Hernandez of first-degree murder in the 2013 killing of Odin Lloyd in North Attleborough.
Hernandez's lawyer said the woman claimed to work with the juror, but McCauley questioned that account in a filing released Monday.
McCauley said an attempt by Hernandez's lawyer to question the woman under oath would be an "unwarranted fishing expedition."
"It was a relationship that 'Katy,' based on her uninformed belief in the defendant's innocence, hoped would continue after the defendant's release," McCauley writes in the document.
The woman's father also served time in prison with Hernandez, according to the document.
Hernandez is serving a life sentence without parole.
