Robert Kraft didn't look like he wanted to be in the courtroom Tuesday, testifying in the Aaron Hernandez murder trial. But when he was finished, it's likely Hernandez and his defense team wanted him there even less.
Speaking to Gary Tanguay on Tuesday night's Arbella Early Edition, Dan Wetzel of Yahoo! Sports -- who's been covering the trial as it's unfolded -- said Kraft's testimony has "increased the likelihood (the prosecutors) will get a conviction" of the former Patriots tight end on charges that he murdered Odin Lloyd in 2013.
The reason? Through Kraft, we now know what Hernandez' original alibi was . . . and it's been proven to be false.
"Kraft sought him out in the weight room when he was still just a murder suspect, before he'd been charged, and asked him what had happened, and Aaron Hernandez told him: 'I was at a club. I'm innocent,' " Wetzel said.
"That's a damaging bit of evidence because that's clearly a lie. Aaron Hernandez (was) at a restaurant earlier in that evening, but he had come home and driven up and picked Odin Lloyd up and, at the very least, drove him to the spot of the murder scene at about 3:20 in the morning. And then at 3:25, (Hernandez was back) at his house. There's video, there's DNA, there's all the evidence in the world. So (even if) he left [Lloyd] alive, he was not at a club. And there's no clubs open at that (time), and there's no proof that he ever went anywhere.
"So the problem isn't so much that he lied to Robert Kraft. It's that his original alibi is completely false, and the defense isn't using it anymore. And I think the prosecution will say, 'This guy's shifted his story.' And this is the only . . . time we're going to hear anything from Aaron Hernandez, (through the testimony of) Robert Kraft. And it's not a true statement. It's a shifting alibi . . .
"Hernandez has never stated his theory of what happened. His theory of what happened to Robert Kraft in the moment after the murder was not just 'I'm innocent.' If he just left it there, and said 'I don't know what happened,' it would be fine. But he concocted an alibi. He said, 'I was at a club.' We know that is a complete lie . . . As such, he's now on his second alibi.
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"Shifting a story like that is very powerful, because why would he have lied the first time if he didn't have anything to with that? So I think it actually is very damaging testimony from Robert Kraft to Aaron Hernandez."