Hernandez's intent or motive would not be at issue, only the reasonableness of his conduct and its relationship to Lloyd dying. If the evidence against Hernandez is as strong as Bristol County prosecutors maintain, Lloyd's family would easily meet this standard. Prosecutors, in contrast, have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Hernandez murdered Lloyd.Some of these fanatics are my friends, and so I don want to be too critical, but I swear they probably know 10 times more about their fantasy football statistics than they know about the details of the federal budget. I not saying folks should drop everything every time a president gives a speech, but all of this craziness about a football game seems sort of childish. In fact, as I was writing these words late last week, the NFLObama scheduling conflict was sharing the headlines with the threat of yet another late summer storm bringing more rains and floods to New Orleans.

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