Aaron Hernandez and his new legal "dream team" are scheduled in Plymouth Superior court Thursday for a hearing in the double murder case he faces.

The proceedings are in response to several motions previously filed on Hernandez's behalf and to allow his new team of attorneys led by Miami-based Jose Baez to formally interject themselves into the case.

Baez Defended Casey Anthony

Baez is nationally known for having successfully defended Casey Anthony in 2011 on charges of murdering her two-year-old daughter Caylee. The high-profile case ended with Anthony being acquitted.

The 26-year-old former NFL star is currently being held at the Souza-Baranowski maximum security prison on a life sentence without the possibility of parole after being found guilty of being the trigger-man in the 2013 execution style slaying of Odin Lloyd.

Authorities have speculated Hernandez may have killed Lloyd because he knew too much about other violent crimes he is suspected of having been involved in.

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

Hernandez Described as 'Sociopath'

Meanwhile, a top law enforcement officer who once stood guard over Hernandez recently described him as "a sociopath" who warranted constant monitoring.

"He's a master manipulator, he's able to draw people in very easily, he's constantly working the system to try to get things that he otherwise isn't supposed to have," said Bristol County Sheriff Thomas M. Hodgson.

The sheriff later hinted some of Hernandez's actions seem to suggest he held out hope of one day being able to resurrect his NFL career.

"He never thought of himself as being in prison," he added. "He saw himself as being at training camp and he believed it within his mind. He pushed everything out. He was able to just keep in what he wanted to focus on and that was, 'I'm in training camp and I'm going to be out of here and I'm going to be back with the Patriots.' "

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