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