Carlos Ortiz

DARTMOUTH - With an acquittal in a double murder trial just last week, and an appeal on a murder conviction likely on the way, many are wondering why Aaron Hernandez would kill himself now. Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson got to know Hernandez a little during the former New England Patriot's incarceration at the Bristol County House of Corrections in 2013...

A man found guilty in connection with the killing of Odin Lloyd is sentenced in Fall River Superior Court.

A friend of former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez has lost in his attempt to get a murder charge against him dismissed. A Massachusetts judge on Tuesday denied the request by Carlos Ortiz to dismiss the indictment that charges him with one count of murder for the 2013 killing of Odin Lloyd...

(Associated Press) - A friend of former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez is seeking to dismiss his indictment in the 2013 murder of semiprofessional football player Odin Lloyd. Carlos Ortiz Seeks Dismissal Of Murder Indictment Hernandez was convicted and given a life sentence for Lloyd's murder in April...

A Massachusetts judge who oversaw the trial of former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez has rejected a request to throw out his first-degree murder conviction or reduce it to second-degree murder. Superior Court Judge Susan Garsh turned down a motion for a required finding of not guilty in the 2013 killing of Odin Lloyd...

(AP) — Two men accused of joining with former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez to kill a man in 2013 have appeared in court for the first time since Hernandez's murder conviction.

The prosecution in the murder trial of ex-New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez is trying to show that one of his co-defendants tried to cover his own tracks in the days after the killing. Hernandez has pleaded not guilty to the June 2013 killing of Odin Lloyd...

A cousin of ex-New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez wants a conspiracy charge dismissed because her attorney says prosecutors didn't tell the grand jury that a key witness failed a lie detector test. Tanya Singleton's attorney says in a court filing prosecutors impaired the integrity of the grand jury by withholding evidence that ``undermined greatly'' the credibility of Carlos Ortiz...

A Bristol County Grand Jury has returned separate indictments bringing new charges against two of the alleged associates of former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez. The Bristol County District Attorney's Office says the indictments were handed down late this afternoon, and charge Carlos Ortiz and Ernest Wallace, both of Bristol, Connecticut, with murder in connection to the June 2013 slay

An attorney for Carlos Ortiz says the friend of Hernandez thought it was a routine hang-out session before Odin Lloyd was shot and killed. Ortiz was in court for a pre-trial hearing Thursday. Defense attorney John Connors says his client had no knowledge of an alleged plot to kill Lloyd, and only wanted to hang out with his football-star-friend, Aaron Hernandez...