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...jury of seven men and five women did not buy the defense’s claim that Pring-Wilson was acting in self-defense when he fought off Colono and his cousin, Samuel E. Rodriguez...
Jurors never heard of a police report alleging that on Sept. 15, 2001 Colono ordered food at a local dive and allegedly threw money in the cashier’s face, kicking the door and shattering glass after being asked to leave. And the defense has claimed that the jury was not privy to several assault and battery convictions that Rodriguez had racked up in years prior. This background information could have swayed jurors to believe that Colono and his cousin were the aggressors in the fight...
...paths of Colono, a high-school dropout, and Pring-Wilson, a student at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian studies, converged the night of the fatal stabbing, setting up a tantalizing back story on which the press capitalized...
...although the differences were stark—Pring-Wilson is the son of two prominent attorneys, with an illustrious academic career and aspirations of entering law; Colono was a convicted crack cocaine dealer of Puerto Rican descent who fathered a child at 15—the socioeconomic, racial divide was more media fodder than in-court strategy...
...really only looked at the facts of the case. The idea that he was a Harvard student didn’t buy him anything,” he says. “One of the things that this jury did was put up a picture of Michael Colono while we were deliberating, so that we would not forget he was a person. So much was done during the trial to make us believe he was not a person...