The prosecution of Mr. Hernandez ground forward on Friday, with his arraignment on second-degree murder charges.
They were being held by the police in the Bronx on Friday night, with no arraignment scheduled.
The Jamaican authorities said they had frozen his assets pending a resolution of the case, which gets under way with an arraignment scheduled for Friday.
Court documents indicate it was assembled over five days, ending with the arraignment of the first five suspects here on Sept. 14.
With the arraignment of Barry Bonds and the release of the much-awaited report by former U.S. Senator George Mitchell on the use of performance-enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball, expect the national pastime to continue to dominate sports coverage in the coming weeks–and legal news coverage as well.
7 07 p.m.: This article has been updated with Fuentes' arraignment being postponed, other details.
With the arraignments, the Queens district attorney, Richard A. Brown, has 120 days to decide whether to seek the death penalty in the case.
The atmosphere on the first day contrasted sharply with a chaotic arraignment hearing in May, when they refused to answer the judge's questions.
Mr. Nowak, who works with Robert Spector, an assistant United States attorney, on the safe neighborhoods program, said he has seen a "significant number" of state gun cases resolved within a month or two of arraignment with lengthy prison time.
The day after Mr. Faison died in police custody, the Essex County prosecutor, Patricia Hurt, formally charged Mr. Everett, who appeared at his arraignment with a black eye and a number of bruises.
