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FALL RIVER, Mass., Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Jurors in the trial of former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez got a bus tour Friday of sites linked to the alleged murder of Odin Lloyd. The climax of the tour was a visit to Hernandez's mansion in North Attleboro, where the football player was arrested days after Lloyd's body was found in a nearby industrial park.
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Jurors left the Bristol County courthouse in Fall River in a chartered bus that took them 50 miles north to Boston and Lloyd's house in the Dorchester neighborhood. They visited two cell towers on the way where calls allegedly linked to the crime were transmitted.
The bus then traveled south to the Corliss Landing industrial park and Hernandez's $1.3 million home.
News media representatives were not allowed in the mansion, where jurors spent about 35 minutes.
On Thursday, Superior Court Judge E. Susan Garsh ordered the defense to hide any items placed in Hernandez's home since his arrest. Prosecutors complained that the house had been filled with pictures of Hernandez as a high school football player, his trophies and religious objects.
Garsh said the pictures must come off the walls and display cases should be covered for the jury visit.
During arguments, defense lawyer James Sultan said Shayanna Jenkins, Hernandez's fiancée, lives in the house and should be able to do what she wants.
"This house is not a museum. People have lived there," Sultan said.
