Former Patriots’ TE Aaron Hernandez was arrested today and charged with first degree murder in the death of Odin Lloyd:

Prosecutors said home surveillance videos taken from Hernandez’s house show him in possession of firearms before and after Lloyd was killed, that Hernandez was observed picking Lloyd up at 2:30 a.m. on the night he was killed, that a silver Nissan Altima — the same make of vehicle Hernandez had rented — was seen going to and coming from the site where Lloyd’s body was found and that Hernandez was seen exiting his vehicle with a gun at his home at 3:29 a.m., shortly after authorities say Lloyd had been murdered.

Prosecutors added that .45 caliber shell casings found at the scene matched shell casings found in Hernandez’s rental car.

“The defendant orchestrated the execution,” an assistant district attorney, Bill McCauley, said. Lloyd, he said, was shot five times.

One of Hernandez’s lawyers, Michael Fee, called the case against him “weak” and “circumstantial.”

Circumstantial indeed.  I believe that the technical term for Fee’s spin on the case is “desparately grasping at straws”.

ADDENDA 6/27/2013:

• The story gets worse.
• A brief commentary from Only A Game host Bill Littlefield here.