The state’s highest court has agreed to consider whether it will continue to recognize the old Bay State law that erased Aaron Hernandez’s first-degree murder conviction from the books after he killed himself in his jail cell.Bristol prosecutors asked the Supreme Judicial Court to either throw out or refine the abatement ab initio doctrine, arguing that the rule no longer makes sense and would incentivize suicide in some cases.
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