Perjury trial of Hernandez fiancee gets reprieve from fast track

FALL RIVER, Mass., Jan. 7 (UPI) -- An attorney for the fiancee of a former NFL player accused of killing a Massachusetts man says she have been granted more time to prepare for her perjury trial.

Janice Bassil, the attorney for Shayanna Jenkins, told Superior Court Judge E. Susan Garsh she needed more time to go through the evidence assembled by prosecutors, the Herald News in Fall River, Mass., reported Tuesday.

Jenkins had been scheduled to go to trial as early as April 1. Bassil asked the judge for a postponement.

"I simply haven 't gotten through all the discovery," she told Garsh. "I want to narrow it down to what is missing and what I want to file."

Asked by the judge if the trial, listed as a fast-track case, could be heard in the six months expected of such cases, Bassil said, "I doubt it, your honor,"

Jenkins is accused of lying to a grand jury when she said 29 times she did not remember conversations with her fiancee, Aaron Hernandez, a former player for the New England Patriots, immediately after the death of Odin Lloyd on June 16.

Prosecutors charge Hernandez shot and killed Lloyd.

Jenkins is also accused of lying when she said she did not recall where she left a box taken from a home she shared with Hernandez the day after Lloyd died.

The next hearing for Jenkins is set for Feb. 27.