article_snippet.sent: A first-degree murder conviction in Massachusetts automatically triggers an appeal to the Supreme Judicial Court.
article_snippet.sent: A date for an appeal to the Supreme Judicial Court wasn't immediately set.
article_snippet.sent: The trial had been scheduled to get under way May 28, but now The trial will be pushed back into the fall or early next year to give Hernandez’s defense team ample time to prepare. '
article_snippet.sent: We expect to select a new court date in the coming days and then set the amended trial track,' Jake Wark, spokesman for the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office, said in the wake of Wednesday's verdict, reported CNN.