Judge to allow text message testimony in Aaron Hernandez murder trial
Judge E. Susan Garsh changed her mind and will now allow Odin Lloyd's sister, Shaquilla Thibou, to mention the two swapped text messages the morning he was murdered.
Three days after banning the mention of text messages Odin Lloyd sent to his sister, Judge E. Susan Garsh will now allow Lloyd's sister to include some information on them in her testimony during the murder trial of former Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez, according to The Boston Globe.
The prosecution was irate Friday when Lloyd's sister was barred from mentioning that the two exchanged text messages. However, Garsh had second thoughts about her first ruling.
Lloyd, according to court documents, texted, "U saw who I was with ... NFL ... just so U know" to his sister, Shaquilla Thibou, the morning he was murdered. Garsh previously ruled the actual texts cannot be entered into evidence.
Thibou can now mention that she and Lloyd exchanged texts but will not be able to say what the messages contained or her initial emotional reaction upon reading them.
Prosecutors are arguing that when Lloyd sent those texts he was in the backseat of a vehicle Hernandez was driving. Lloyd was found murdered in an industrial park in North Attleboro, Mass. on June 17, 2013.
Hernandez was arrested nine days later and charged with first-degree murder.














