Aaron Hernandez announced Thursday the hiring of the lawyer who famously won an acquittal for Florida mom Casey Anthony to represent him in his upcoming double-murder trial, Jose Baez.
The legal team for the former New England Patriots star will also include Harvard law professor Ronald Sullivan and New York City lawyer Alex Spiro.
Hernandez is awaiting trial for a 2012 double murder in Boston and has pleaded not guilty. He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison last year in the 2013 killing of a man who was dating the sister of Hernandez’s fiancee.
Baez gained fame during Anthony’s 2011 trial on charges that she murdered her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee. The case garnered national media attention after photos showed Anthony partying in the days after her daughter’s disappearance.