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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

The revelatory within tale of the trial and ultimate days of New England Patriots celebrity Aaron Hernandez, through his legal professional and New York Occasions bestselling writer Jose Baez.

When popular protection legal professional Jose Baez gained a request for illustration from Aaron Hernandez, the disgraced Patriots tight-finish was once already serving a lifestyles sentence for homicide. Protecting him in a 2d, double-homicide trial looked like a misplaced result in–however Baez popular the problem, and their partnership culminated in a dramatic court victory, a race to contest his first conviction, and in the end a tragedy, while Aaron took his personal lifestyles days after his acquittal.

This riveting, intently-noticed account of Aaron’s lifestyles and ultimate 12 months is the one ebook in keeping with numerous intimate conversations with Aaron, and informed from the standpoint of a real insider. Written with the make stronger of Hernandez’s fiancée, Unnecessary Roughness takes readers throughout the top-profile trial, providing a dramatic retelling of the race to procure key proof that may exonerate Hernandez, and later play a important position in interesting his first conviction.

With revelations approximately Aaron’s non-public lifestyles that were not shared at trial, and an exploration of the Persistent Worrying Encephalopathy prognosis found out through his post-mortem, Jose Baez’s Needless Roughness is a startling court drama and an surprising portrait of a fallen father, fiancé, and teammate.