This could potentially be a big win for Aaron Hernandez as he prepares for his murder trial to get underway in a few months. A judge ruled yesterday that certain evidence that police feel definitely link the former Patriots star to the murder of Odin Lloyd, as well as possible other murders, would not be allowed to be used against him. Such a seemingly insignificant ruling today could mean much more down the road. Hit the jump.

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Bullets found in an apartment rented by ex-New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez and a magazine found in his Hummer were thrown out as evidence in his murder case Thursday by a judge who said state police didn’t demonstrate probable cause for the searches.

Judge E. Susan Garsh said there were “absolutely no facts” linking Hernandez “in any way at all to the crime under investigation” in an affidavit supporting the warrant application to search his Franklin apartment. That warrant was for a cellphone belonging to co-defendant Carlos Ortiz, who was with Hernandez when Odin Lloyd was killed.

Hernandez, 24, has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the June 2013 killing of Lloyd, a semi-professional football player who was dating Hernandez’s fiancee’s sister. He’s being held without bail.

This ruling obviously made the job of the district attorney who will be trying the case much more difficult.