Ex-Patriots Player Faces Life in Maximum Security Prison.
BURNETT: Tonight, a former NFL star's new life. Aaron Hernandez's first-degree murder conviction is only the beginning of his legal woes. He faces a second trial for double homicide charges for the shooting deaths of two men outside a nightclub, two civil trials as well as an appeal on yesterday's murder conviction. But now the former patriots tight-end who would signed a $40 million contract is preparing to spend the rest of his life an hour's drive from the Patriot's stadium in a state-of-the-art, high-tech, maximum security prison. Jean Casarez is OUTFRONT.</s>JEAN CASAREZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Convicted murderer Aaron Hernandez may be known for wearing number 81 with the New England Patriots, but now, he has a new number, the Massachusetts Department of Corrections. With his first full day of processing completed at MCI Cedar Junction, a maximum security facility down the road from where he played in the NFL, the next 30 days will involve placement tests, medical assessments and a full mental evaluation. Doctors also will look at his state of mind. He mouthed the words "you're wrong" after the verdict came in and told an escort several days before, "I'm going to get out of here and when I do, I'm going to get ahold of Obama, tell him you should be doing security at the White House." Hernandez is still awaiting trial for a double murder in Boston, where the motive prosecutors say was anger over a spilled drink.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MAN: How do you plead this indictment? Are you guilty or not guilty?</s>AARON HERNANDEZ, FORMER NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS PLAYER: Not guilty.</s>CASAREZ: Once Hernandez is processed, he will be brought to the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, where his actions will be documented 24 hours a day by 366 surveillance cameras, much like the video evidence captured in his own home that was used against him during the trial. He will be confined to a cinder block cell and can expect to be put in the boss chair or the body orifice security scanner. The magnetic rays can see contraband or weapons anywhere on or in your body. Hernandez can start out with $30 a week to spend on snacks, toiletries and even authorized clothing. A far cry from his $40 million contract with the New England Patriots. But there is no limit to how much money Hernandez can have in his commissary account.</s>UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: But he would be foolish to do so because other people who are poor, you know, will be very interested in helping him spend that money and buying them things.</s>CASAREZ (voice-over): Many jobs will be available to Hernandez in time, such as cleaning, scrubbing, sweeping or mopping around the prison. But Hernandez won't have to work if he doesn't want to. Inmates he were about 50 cents an hour. And as far as doing what he loves, there is rec time, even for someone in protective custody. And, yes, the prison offers touch football.</s>CASAREZ: Now, the difficulty, experts say really the most difficulty is the acceptance that you're never going to be free again. And the prison encourages visits from the family, his mother, his fiancee, their child. You can embrace very quickly when you arrive, you can maybe touch a hand. When you leave, there is going to be a strip search always of Aaron Hernandez. And at 25 years old, Erin, he will never have a conjugal visit because that's not allowed in Massachusetts.</s>ERIN BURNETT, CNN ANCHOR: All right, Jean Casarez, thank you very much. Now,</s>OUTFRONT: defense attorney Tom Mesereau and our legal analyst, Mark O'Mara, also criminal defense attorney. You know, Mark, it's pretty incredible, when you actually think for a moment the fact he is 25 years old, what the rest of his life will be like. We saw how he conducted himself in court, mouthing "you're wrong" after the verdict was read. And -- but the rest of the trial, good spirits, talking to his lawyers, winking at his girlfriend, you know, always the kind of large and in charge, I'm too cool for school kind of guy. So, what does that mean for how his life will be in prison?</s>MARK O'MARA, CNN LEGAL ANALYST: His life is going to be much different. His celebrity that helped him out as an NFL player is now going to hurt him. One of the things that Jean said is very true. They are going to know he is a celebrity and he is going to get targeted, I think, because of that. And more importantly, they are going to know that he could have money in that commissary account, and that maybe if they force him to have money in that commissary account, it comes back to help them. It is going to be a huge change for Hernandez. He will probably need to keep him in protective custody, at least for a while. We know he had some gang associations potentially before he got to the NFL. And let me tell you, there are gangs in those prison systems and he may well have to get to something like that for protection purposes.</s>BURNETT: Yes, absolutely. Tom, do you agree? It is interesting, some might say because of those connections, you know, which we are not exactly sure what they might be, but they, of course, have been reported, that he would be safer, that he would be sort of a king of this prison, but it sounds like from what Mark is saying, might be the opposite.</s>TOM MESEREAU, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: It could be. I have had clients, when did a lot of gang defense earlier in my career, they actually welcomed going to prison. They said their partners would take care of them, they would protect them, they had their own subculture. I don't know how it's going to play here, because you have alleged gang affiliations but you have a celebrity. So, celebrities are targets. There are people in prison who have nowhere to go, never going to get out. If you can whack a celebrity, you can be really a man of status or woman of status. So, I don't -- I don't think necessary for a fun time and I think the only way to really protect him is to isolate him and that can be a very, very meager existence as well.</s>BURNETT: And, Mark, what about, as jean was reporting, you know, he has got to go through these searches all the time and that chair, you know, you get $30 a week, 50 cents an hour, but you don't have to work. What is that life like, from what you've seen?</s>O'MARA: This is -- you know, this is real prison. This is the stuff you see on some of the documentary programs that they talk about. There is no privacy. There are no luxuries. This is truly prison. He is never going to get out. They are going to treat him as a number. The prison system is woefully underfunded anyway. Through the extent they have to spend more money on him because of his celebrity status, he may not be a favorite of the corrections officers have to deal extra with him because of that. And you are right, these type of strip searches and everything else they are going to do to him because of any interaction he has is going to be more of a hassle for the system and these people are not particularly sympathetic to somebody who is causing them more time, effort and work.</s>BURNETT: So, it's both sides, from the guards and possibly from the other prisoners. Tom, what about the issue he has now, an appeal and another trial for double homicide. He has all this coming ahead of him. I guess let's just take the appeal for starters. Does he have a chance, winning his appeal?</s>MESEREAU: Well, he certainly has a chance. He had some very good defense attorneys who have an excellent record when it comes to success on appeal. I have to assume they raised every appropriate objection they come. The problem is the judge. The judge is known to be very fair to the defense. She excluded a lot of evidence the prosecutors wanted to admit, evidence that he had shot other individuals, evidence that he had supposedly committed murder.</s>BURNETT: Right.</s>MESEREAU: And this judge is nope to be a fairly appellate-proof in a ruling. So, I think it's going to be tougher because of who the judge was and the rulings she gave. but do you have good lawyers and always has a chance.</s>BURNETT: And, Mark, what about the other double homicide? In a sense, it doesn't matter, right, unless he wins his appeal, because he is already in jail for the rest of his life.</s>O'MARA: In that sense, it doesn't matter. I can tell you right now the prosecution is going to go forward on that case and they are going to probably get a conviction in that the evidence that we know to date seems even stronger in that case that it did in this case, that he was just convicted on. Not going to give him a free pass because there is the possibility of an appeal, though I agree with Tom, this judge insulated herself from any potential appeal by the way she handled the prosecution's case.</s>BURNETT: Thanks so much to both of you. And coming up at the top of the hour, Anderson has an exclusive interview with some of the jurors in the Aaron Hernandez trial. Make sure you stick around for that. And OUTFRONT from the next, new video of the pilot, he flew undetected in restricted airspace, the most restricted in the world, this in a series of major security breaches. We have looked into it and the results are pretty shocking. Plus, the marijuana medicine men, two brothers traps formed a budding idea into $15 million.