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This trial marks the latest development in the four-year long saga that began with a chance encounter between then-masters student in Russian and Slavic studies Pring-Wilson and the now deceased Michael D. Colono in the spring of 2003 outside a Western Avenue pizza parlor. According to his defense attorneys, Pring-Wilson acted in self-defense when he and Colono became involved in an altercation that ended with Pring-Wilson stabbing Colono five times in 70 seconds. Pring-Wilson was convicted and sentenced to six to eight years in prison in his 2004 trial...
...court held that at a retrial we get to go deeper into other violent conduct by not only Michael Colono, but also Samuel Rodriguez,” Parker said...
...much-publicized Pring-Wilson saga began on the morning of Apr. 12, 2003 when he fatally stabbed 18-year-old Michael D. Colono five times in seventy seconds during an altercation outside a Western Avenue pizza parlor...
Pring-Wilson—who is currently under house arrest after being released on bail in 2004—did not know Colono or his cousin Samuel D. Rodriguez, who was also involved in the fight, prior to their altercation...
...Adjutant, in this case the identity of the first aggressor was essential, and the defendant sought aggressively and repeatedly to introduce evidence of Colono and Rodriguez’s violent histories to illuminate the matter,” wrote Chief Justice Margaret H. Marshall in the opinion...