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After two trials and nearly five years, Alexander Pring-Wilson has plead guilty to involuntary manslaughter and has been sentenced to two years and one day in prison.
Pring-Wilson was convicted of manslaughter in October 2004 and sentenced to six to eight years in jail. In 2005, Pring-Wilson was granted a retrial after the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that evidence of a victim's violent history could be used in self-defense cases.
The second trial of the Harvard graduate student charged with manslaughter ended quietly in a mistrial last month, marking another turn in a case that now appears headed for a third trial. As the legal saga nears its fifth year, few professors and classmates of Alexander Pring-Wilson remain on...
Pring-Wilson, now 29 years old, fatally stabbed 18-year-old Michael D. Colono outside of a Western Avenue pizzeria on April 12, 2003, in what he claimed was an act of self-defense. After being found guilty of voluntary manslaughter in October 2004, a second trial was granted when...
Despite the unusual nature of a Harvard student on trial for manslaughter connected with a murder, many professors contacted say there is little interest among the current Davis Center community in the trial.