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By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - A Massachusetts judge on Wednesday approved a request by lawyers for Aaron Hernandez to question a woman they said tipped them off to a juror who should have been disqualified, a move that could upend the former NFL star's murder conviction. The former New England Patriots tight end in April was sentenced to life in prison for murdering semiprofessional football player Odin Lloyd in June 2013, in the first of two murder trials before him this year. Following his conviction in the first case, defense lawyers said a woman who gave her name as "Katy" repeatedly called them, claiming to have evidence that one of the jurors had known that Hernandez was also charged with murdering two other men outside a Boston nightclub in 2012.
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