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...five months after his conviction, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC), the state’s highest court, handed down a ruling allowing juries to consider a victim’s violent history in self-defense cases, even if the parties did not know each other beforehand. Colono??€™s violent history was excluded from the original trial. Pring-Wilson’s lawyers appealed and in 2005 Judge Regina L. Quinlan overturned Pring-Wilson’s conviction and called for a new trial. The prosecution appealed Quinlan’s decision but the SJC upheld...
With the admission of this new evidence, the jury in this retrial will now be able to hear about Colono??€™s violent past from the defense, including an incident in which Colono was arrested after throwing money in the face of a cashier at a pizzeria and shattering the glass in the front door. The jury may also hear about another case in which Colono alledgedly assaulted two people on a subway and then spit on the police officers who arrested him, according to the Associated Press. In the original trial, the jury was only allowed to hear...
Besides the violent history of Colono, the defense will also be able to cite the record of Colono??€™s cousin Samuel Rodriguez. Rodriguez was with Colono on the night he died and said he jumped into the fight when he could see his relative losing. Whereas the jury was previously allowed to hear only about Rodriguez’s three prior assault and battery convictions, they will now be able to learn that Rodriguez once egged a passing car and then attacked one of its riders, hit his sister in the eye with a cup and then tried...
...trial, Judge Quinlan barred defense lawyers from using evidence of Colono??€™s alleged history of violence, arguing that the contemporary self-defense law only permitted a victim’s violent history to be entered as evidence if the defendant had been aware of that history and thus had reasonable concern for his safety...
Introducing Colono??€™s history of violence in a new trial may improve Pring-Wilson’s chances, Abramson said. If the SJC upholds Quinlan’s ruling, it may even result in a plea bargain rather than a new trial, he added...