But why didn't he kill himself 5 days after that conviction? He sat in prison for 2 years with the fact that he was spending the rest of his life in prison. But five days after an acquittal, and with his other case being appealed, he decides to kill himself? Seems weird to me. You usually kill yourself when you have no hope, not when you have some glimmer of perceived hope.
Not for nothing but after the acquittal the lawyer said he could probably help get Hernandez off of his life sentence, but after looking at his finances he's probably gonna need help to pay for it.
Figuring that, plus the civil cases he would probably lose, is it conceivable that he killled himself to avoid all of that and make sure his daughter had something left to her? It's possible