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Last week, three members of the original jury sent a letter to the Boston Globe expressing concern that a second trial, in which the defense could be allowed to discuss Colono??€™s and Rodriguez’ pasts, could devolve into a spectacle of “race and class...
Sultan, one of Pring-Wilson’s lawyers, said that Colono??€™s and Rodriguez’ violent histories “have nothing to do with their race or class...
Pring-Wilson, now 27, encountered the 18-year-old Colono and Michael D. Rodriguez, Colono??€™s cousin, outside a Cambridge pizza parlor on April 12, 2003, as he was walking home after a night of drinking. A fight erupted between Pring-Wilson and Colono and his cousinÂ, with each of the two sides later claiming the other was at fault. Pring-Wilson fatally stabbed Colono during the altercation...
During the original trial, lawyers for Pring-Wilson had sought to portray Colono??€™s stabbing as an act of self-defense. But an important part of that strategy—presenting the allegedly violent past histories of Colono and his cousin, who was also at the scene—was blocked by Quinlan...
Despite being of no consequence within the jury room, the issue of Colono??€™s troubled past seemed to have caught—and held—the public’s attention...