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The Middlesex County district attorney’s office has garnered criticism for seeking a first-degree murder conviction against Pring-Wilson instead of lesser charges of second-degree murder or manslaughter.
Jurors in the trial of former Harvard graduate student Alexander Pring-Wilson may get the chance to consider manslaughter charges in addition to more severe charges of first or second-degree murder.
“Jurors will love to have the manslaughter option,” Galenter said. “These types of cases are gut-wrenching for jurors, because you have two young people who are going to lose their lives: one is breathing but is going to be in...
In the last high-profile murder trial in Cambridge, lawyers for au pair Louise Woodward asked the judge to exclude manslaughter from the jurors’ menu of options. The move backfired when the jury convicted Woodward of second-degree murder. The judge later reduced the conviction to manslaughter.
“In Middlesex County, the usual practice is to charge everyone with first-degree murder—even if it’s manslaughter,” Mahoney said. “They’re trying to intimidate you to accept manslaughter. Pring-Wilson hasn?...