Aaron Hernandez is seeking a delay to his upcoming trial on double murder charges.

According to CBS, attorneys for the former New England Patriots tight end recently petitioned the court to put the brakes on proceedings stemming from the 2012 killings of two men outside a downtown Boston nightclub.

Prosecutors allege the 26-year-old Hernandez gunned down both Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado at a stoplight, after one of the men accidentally spilled a drink on Hernandez earlier in the evening and failed to apologize.

Hernandez has pleaded not guilty, and jury selection in the case is currently slated to commence on Jan. 19.

Meanwhile, Hernandez was recently placed in a "segregated unit" at the Souza-Baranowski maximum security prison, after a search of his cell turned up a homemade knife.

According to NESN, Hernandez was immediately transferred to an even more restricted area of the facility. He is currently serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole, after being convicted earlier this year in the 2013 execution-style killing of former associate Odin Lloyd.

Jail officials have not publicly indicated how long Hernandez might be held in isolation, but this hardly marks the first trouble for him since being incarcerated. Just days after he was found guilty in the Lloyd slaying, he was suspected of serving as the lookout man for one inmate who went into another's cell where a gang-related brawl ensued.

All three inmates were later disciplined, with Hernandez being placed in a special management section of the prison. In 2014, he was indicted on assault charges after allegedly attacking another inmate being transported from an infirmary at the Bristol County House of Correction in Dartmouth, Massachusetts. Several media outlets reported Hernandez punched the man and knocked him to the ground, though neither suffered any serious injury.