Murder Trial Beginning for Aaron Hernandez Friend

Ernest Wallace's trial gets underway Thursday in Fall River Superior Court

Jury selection in the murder trial of a friend of former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez is getting started.

Ernest Wallace's trial gets underway Thursday in Fall River Superior Court.

The 44-year-old Wallace is charged with murder in connection with the June 2013 shooting death of Odin Lloyd, of Boston, whose bullet-riddled body was found in a North Attleborough industrial park.

Lloyd was dating Hernandez's fiancée's sister. Hernandez was convicted in Lloyd's slaying last year and sentenced to life in prison without parole.

Prosecutors say Wallace was one of two other men with Hernandez on the night of the Lloyd's killing and is being tried under the joint venture theory.

Wallace has denied the charges and pleaded not guilty.

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