By MICHELLE R. SMITH Associated Press FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) _ Former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez and his fiancee traded expressionless glances Friday as she took the witness stand to testify in his murder trial. Shayanna Jenkins was called by prosecutors after being granted immunity, which means she was ordered to testify by the court or face time behind bars. Jenkins, Hernandez’s high school sweetheart and the mother of his 2-year-old daughter, appeared to be a reluctant and careful witness, pausing for long periods before answering and saying she couldn’t remember details of the time surrounding the June 17, 2013, killing of Odin Lloyd, who was dating her younger sister. Lloyd’s bullet-riddled body was found in an industrial park near the home Hernandez and Jenkins shared. But some of what Jenkins said could hurt Hernandez, including that minutes after she dropped him off at a police station to be questioned about Lloyd’s death he directed her to give money to one of his co-defendants. “He told me to meet up with Bo and give him money,” Jenkins said, referring to Ernest Wallace. Wallace and a third man, Carlos Ortiz, have pleaded not guilty in the killing and will […]
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