Aaron Hernandez Trial Day 2: If goal is to bore jury, prosecution is succeeding

Now we know why the trial of Aaron Hernandez is expected to take up to two months: prosecutor William McCauley is doing the questioning.

In Day 2 of the murder trial against the former New England Patriots star we learned that Comfort Suites is a hotel, that after getting pregnant a baby is born and how a 911 call is routed.

There were a few relevant points made during the four hours of testimony on Friday, namely the prosecution's attempt to put Hernandez's footprint at the scene of the crime, where Odin Lloyd's dead body was found, but mostly what the jury of 18 got was more useless facts that the defense promised in its opening statement would be forthcoming from the prosecution.

McCauley may be trying to lay an exceedingly firm foundation, but so far he's mostly just installed a bunch of windows looking out onto nothing.

The kicker came when Charles Sutherland, director of communications for the Massachusetts State Police, took the stand to explain the ins and outs of a 911 call. This took 17 minutes, after which there was no cross examination.

And why would there be?

The only damage Sutherland's testimony did to Hernandez's case was cost him a few hundred bucks in billable hours.

If this is McCauley's strategy, to rack up legal fees for Hernandez by putting witness after witness through a line of mostly meaningless questioning, then he's doing a bang up job. Thursday the jury learned, thanks to McCauley's line of questioning, that Attleboro, Mass., is south of North Attleboro. Friday's testimony revealed to them that after Hernandez's girlfriend Shayanna Jenkins got pregnant, a baby soon arrived.

That gem came via a line of questioning to Jenkins' sister Shaneah, Friday's final witness. Shaneah Jenkins was Odin Lloyd's girlfriend. Her testimony, halted for a weekend recess, focused on the layout of Hernandez's home and Lloyd's propensity to smoke marijuana. Apparently he smoked frequently with Hernandez in the football star's basement, which we learned features a popcorn machine and a pool table sporting a New England Patriots logo.

Lloyd's propensity to smoke pot with Hernandez is a salient point given the prosecution's revelation in its opening statement Thursday that a joint with Hernandez's DNA on it was found next to Lloyd's body.

Presumably McCauley will eventually get to that bit of evidence, as well as potentially incriminating cell phone records, the shell casing with Hernandez's DNA on it and the video showing him driving down a dirt path with four people in a car only to return with just three.

But before McCauley gets to that, he apparently wants to make sure the jury understands exactly what Shaneah Jenkins did for the Comfort Suites in 2012 (desk clerk), how Odin Lloyd rolled his joints (usually just one at a time), and what door Jenkins used to go inside Hernandez's house (the garage).