The judge in the Aaron Hernandez murder case has denied the former NFL star's latest request for a new trial based on claims of jury misconduct.

According to The Boston Globe, Bristol Superior Court Judge E. Susan Garsh rejected attempts by Hernandez's legal team to subpoena the records of a Utah-based Internet service provider, through which an anonymous prospective juror admitted foul play in the case in response to a court survey.

The anonymous poster claimed that, even though prospective jurors were aware they were not supposed to talk about related news from outside the case, they did so anyway.

"I find it humorous now that nobody knows we did talk amongst ourselves and you still believe we didn't,'' the person wrote. "I hope you pick us again so we can do it again to another thug."

The 25-year-old Hernandez was found guilty of first-degree murder in the 2013 gruesome killing of Odin Lloyd and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. He is now being held at the Souza-Baranowski maximum security facility.

Attorneys for the former NFL star had sought to learn the identity of the person who posted the messages in order to establish if that person actually served on the jury that convicted Hernandez and if any other rules may have also been violated.

"Apart from the fact that the survey, which can be completed by anybody regardless of whether he or she actually served on a jury, was completed by someone using a Utah-based Internet service provider, the defendant [has] not shown that an allegation that jurors talked among themselves during the trial merits inquiry," Garsh wrote in her decision.

Garsh is still considering a separate request made by the defense, asking that she privately interview a woman they claim told them that a juror also violated court rules to assure being picked for the high-profile trial.