Judge won’t drop perjury charges against Hernandez fiancee

Shayanna Jenkins alleged that prosecutors had violated long-standing legal practice in prosecuting her.Bizuayehu Tesfaye/AP File

The girlfriend of former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez on Friday lost her bid to have perjury charges stemming from the investigation into the murder of Odin L. Lloyd dismissed.

In a 10-page ruling released this afternoon, Bristol Superior Court Judge E. Susan Garsh rejected defense arguments that Shayanna Jenkins was targeted by a wrathful Bristol County District Attorney C. Samuel Sutter, whose prosecutors violated long-standing legal practice.

“Jenkins has failed to establish that the prosecutor questioned her for the primary purpose of securing a perjury indictment or that the perjury charge involves matters not germane to the legitimate investigation into Lloyd’s death,’’ Garsh wrote.

Surveillance video from Hernandez’s home that was presented as evidence by Shayanna Jenkins’s defense allegedly showed Aaron Hernandez with something in his hand hidden from Jenkins' view.The Boston Globe/Globe Freelance