A Rhode Island car dealership will not be able to get back the SUV it leased to Aaron Hernandez until after his upcoming double murder trial in Boston has come to an end.

Suffolk County judge Jeffrey Locke recently ruled in favor of the former NFL star's attorneys, who had argued that jurors should be able to view the Toyota 4Runner their client is alleged to have been driving on the night he opened fire on two men outside a downtown Boston nightclub in the summer of 2012.

"A viewing of the vehicle to fully understand its size, shape, interior, and seating mechanisms may be helpful to jurors," Locke wrote in rendering his decision. The trial is expected to start this year and Hernandez has already pleaded not guilty.

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Prosecutors allege Hernandez was riding in the 4Runner when he gunned down Daniel de Abreu, 29, and Safiro Furtado, 28, after one of them reportedly spilled a drink on him in the club earlier in the evening and failed to apologize.

The former New England Patriots star is already serving a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole after being convicted in the June 2013 execution styled killing of Odin Lloyd.

Authorities have speculated Hernandez may have killed Lloyd because he feared he knew too much about other violent crimes he is suspected of having been involved in. Hernandez has filed an appeal in the Lloyd case, which is slated to be heard by the state Supreme Judicial Court.

Locke added the dealership could renew its request for the vehicle to be returned after the case has officially ended.

Despite all his troubles, Hernandez recently hinted he still finds time to follow and root for his old team. In a recent letter he wrote to a female pen pal, he boasted he now has a TV in his cell that allows him to watch many of the games.

"The closest I was with was probably Brady and whom I love to death and always will and only hope the best for them," he wrote. Later, he went on the attack against Patriots owner Robert Kraft, labeling him "fake" and "non-loyal."

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