A judge ordered on Monday that the family of the former N.F.L. player and convicted murderer Aaron Hernandez be given his suicide notes.

His fiancée, Shayanna Jenkins, had asked for three notes found in Mr. Hernandez’s cell, where he hanged himself last week.

Judge Thomas F. McGuire Jr. of Bristol Superior Court ordered the notes released to the family, The Boston Globe reported. The notes would be redacted if any information in them might affect the investigation into the case.

A lawyer for Mr. Hernandez, George Leontire, had written in legal papers that “the family has the right, during this grieving process, to know their loved one’s final thoughts.”