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Sparks fly over witness testimony at Aaron Hernandez trial

Ugochukwu Ojimba (center) was shown a photograph by defense attorney Ronald Sullivan (right) during the double murder trial of former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez. STEVEN SENNE/AP/POOL

By The Boston Globe

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Tensions flared Friday in the double murder trial of Aaron Hernandez, when the defense sought a mistrial over a state witness telling the jury that the shooter or someone in the gunman’s car looked “just like him.”

The witness, Raychides Gomes-Sanches, made the statement Thursday during testimony in Suffolk Superior Court.

Defense attorney Ronald Sullivan said Friday that Gomes-Sanches followed up his statement with a “knowing look and a head-nod” directed at Hernandez, a former New England Patriots star.

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