A Suffolk County Superior Court judge has honored a request made by both sides and granted a delay in the Aaron Hernandez double murder trial.

ESPN reports Judge Jeffrey Locke has pushed back the start of the trial, originally scheduled for Jan. 19, 2016, to an unspecified date.

Meanwhile, the Boston Globe also reports Locke noted both sides are slated to meet before Supreme Court Judge Margot Botsford on Jan. 5 in hopes of hammering out an agreement on the admissibility of certain evidence in the case.

Hernandez is charged with gunning down Safiro Furtado and Daniel de Abreu outside a downtown Boston nightclub in the summer of 2012, after one of them spilled a drink on him earlier in the evening and failed to apologize.

In addition, the former New England Patriots star is charged in the shooting of former associate Alexander Bradley in July 2013. Authorities allege Hernandez shot Bradley in the face as the two left a Florida strip club at the height of an argument.

Hernandez is already serving a lifetime sentence without the possibility of parole in the execution style killing of former associate Odin Lloyd.

Lloyd's bullet-riddled body was found not far from Hernandez's North Attleborough mansion in the summer of 2013. During the trial, investigators theorized that Hernandez shot Lloyd because of his knowledge about other violent crimes the star is suspected of having been involved in.

Since being incarcerated, Hernandez has had several run-ins with the law, including recently being moved to solitary confinement after a sweep of his cell at the Souza-Baranowski maximum security prison turned up a homemade shank.

At the time of his arrest in the Lloyd case, Hernandez had only recently signed a $40 million extension with the Patriots as one of quarterback Tom Brady's favorite targets.