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Former student Alexander Pring-Wilson was tried and convicted last fall for fatally stabbing Michael D. Colono during an altercation outside a pizzeria on Western Avenue, in what Pring-Wilson argues was self-defense. But the three-week trial may have been for naught if Judge Regina Quinlan orders a retrial in light of a recent Superior Judicial Court (SJC) ruling, which asserted that evidence of a victim’s violent past is admissible in court...
Pring-Wilson admitted to stabbing local Hispanic teen Michael D. Colono to death after an altercation outside of a pizza parlor on Western Avenue in April 2003, in what his defense called an act of self defense...
...last fall’s trial, Quinlan blocked the defense from introducing evidence regarding what they allege to be the violent past histories of Colono and his cousin, who was also involved in the fight that ultimately killed the 18-year-old. At the time, Mass. law afforded judicial discretion in introducing such evidence, as long as the defendant knew of the victim’s violent past prior to the incident...
Pring-Wilson did not know Colono at the time he fatally stabbed him, and Quinlan decided that evidence concerning Colono’s background was irrelevant to the case...
Defense lawyers argued that Pring-Wilson acted in self-defense after being attacked by Colono, while the prosecution, led by Assistant District Attorney Adrienne Lynch, claimed that Pring-Wilson was the aggressor in the fight and deserved a first-degree murder conviction...