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Prosecutors contend that the trial judge misused her powers in overturning the conviction of Alexander Pring-Wilson and are seeking to have Pring-Wilson sent back to jail for the April 2003 stabbing of Michael D. Colono, who was 18 at the time of his death...

Author: By Jamison A. Hill, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ex-Grad Student’s Retrial Appealed | 1/3/2007 | See Source »

Pring-Wilson stabbed Colono after the two were involved in an altercation outside a Western Avenue pizza parlor. According to Pring-Wilson’s defense attorneys, the ex-graduate student reacted out of self-defense. Middlesex Superior Court Judge Regina L. Quinlan granted Pring-Wilson a new trial in June of last year after the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that a victim’s history of violent behavior could be used as evidence in a self-defense case, even when that history is unknown to the defendant. Initially, Quinlan barred defense lawyers from using evidence of Colono?...

Author: By Jamison A. Hill, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ex-Grad Student’s Retrial Appealed | 1/3/2007 | See Source »

...initial trial, Quinlan barred defense lawyers from introducing evidence suggesting that Colono had a history of violence...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: House Arrest Penalty Eased for Pring-Wilson | 12/1/2005 | See Source »

Pring-Wilson fatally stabbed Cambridge teen Michael D. Colono following a fight outside a pizza parlor in April 2003. A jury convicted Pring-Wilson of voluntary manslaughter last October, and Quinlan sentenced him up to eight years in prison...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: House Arrest Penalty Eased for Pring-Wilson | 12/1/2005 | See Source »

Jurors in the original trial convicted Pring-Wilson of stabbing Colono, then 18 years old, during an April 12, 2003 confrontation outside Pizza Ring on Western Avenue. Pring-Wilson testified that he attacked Colono in self-defense, after being beaten by Colono and his cousin, Samuel L. Rodriguez—both of whom had prior criminal records involving drugs and violence. But prosecutors claimed Pring-Wilson had started the fight...

Author: By Brendan R. Linn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Grad Student Posts $400 K Bail | 7/8/2005 | See Source »

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