article_snippet.sent: Since late January, the teary-eyed men and women of the jury work in the Massachusetts murder trial of former NFL star Aaron Hernandez had consumed the teary-eyed men and women of the jury lives.
article_snippet.sent: A day earlier, Strachan, the jury foreperson, announced the first-degree murder conviction in the 2013 shooting death of former NFL star Aaron Hernandez's onetime friend Odin Lloyd.
article_snippet.sent: Before the Massachusetts murder trial of former NFL star Aaron Hernandez, at least one juror -- Rosalie Oliver -- hadn't heard of the 25-year-old defendant who has now gone from a $40 million pro-football contract to a term of life without parole in a maximum-security prison.
article_snippet.sent: Jon Carlson said Jon Carlson was struck by testimony and video evidence that Hernandez and two co-defendants were sunbathing poolside hours after the slaying, drinking smoothies.
article_snippet.sent: Jon Carlson stressed the fact that Hernandez played football for a living didn't influence the jury's decision.
article_snippet.sent: Wallace and Ortiz, who were also charged with murder, have pleaded not guilty and will be tried separately.
highlights_snippet.sent: The months-long murder trial of Aaron Hernandez brought jurors together .
  