Prosecutors have not said who they believe fired the fatal shots, and Ortiz and Wallace have also been charged with murder and will be tried separately. Hernandez faces one count of murder and two firearms charges in the slaying of Lloyd, a semi-professional football player who was dating Shaneah Jenkins, the sister of Hernandez's fiancee. Lloyd was killed in a gravel pit less than a mile from Hernandez's home. From there, the trio allegedly made the roughly hour-long drive to Boston, where they picked up Lloyd, and then returned to North Attleboro. and Carlos Ortiz, from Bristol, Conn., to his home in North Attleboro, Mass., late the night of June 16, 2013. The prosecution alleges that Hernandez "orchestrated" Lloyd's murder, arranging to meet him and at the same time summoning two associates, Ernest Wallace Jr. Sultan also suggested the inked tire impression was not reliable because there was only one person in the car when Girouard and other troopers made it - and prosecutors allege that four people were in the Nissan at the murder scene.Īnd he asked Girouard whether he knew how many tires of the same size and design were on the road in 2013 - and how many of them would have had rocks in the same four locations. "You're telling us about your opinion not anybody else's opinion, correct?" Sultan asked. He also pushed the idea that tire track evidence is "largely subjective" - something Girouard disagreed with. When defense attorney James Sultan got the chance to question Girouard, he attacked the trooper's training and experience, noting that he had taken only one 4 1/2-day training course on tire impression evidence, had previously worked on only 15 tires, and had never before testified in court about tire track evidence. He went on to testify he had specifically excluded the Nissan's other rear tire. Jurors also saw close-up photos of the track, the inked impression, the tire and the molds as Girouard describedĪfter more than an hour on the stand, prosecutor Brian Griffin asked Girouard whether he had formed an opinion about the Nissan's tire and the track found at the murder scene. At one point, prosecutors hoisted the Nissan's right rear tire onto a table and Girouard pointed out the exact rocks he believed left impressions in the track at the scene. That analysis led to the discovery of the anomalies in the track at the scene that matched the inked impression of the tire, a silicon mold of it and even the tire itself. "As a tire's going through its so-called life, it's changing," Girouard said. Girouard said he also looked for random, individual characteristics left "when something is taken away or introduced - stones, a piece of bubble gum, nails, rocks, a twig."
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