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...next and final development in the case came at a pre-trial hearing on January 9, 2001. Prosecutors amended the most serious count against Hunt—armed assault with the attempt to murder, which can carry a 5 to 20-year prison sentence—to assault and battery on a police officer, which is punishable with up to a two-and-a-half-year jail term...
...effort by Pomey to suppress a confession she made to police and to be tried separately from Gomes, both changed their pleas to “guilty” at a September 2002 hearing. Prosecutors sought jail time, while lawyers for the defendants argued that the judge should order pre-trial probation, a step which would have prevented the guilty plea from being entered on their permanent record...
...trial was originally scheduled for last November, but two pre-trial motions and the withdrawal of the defendant’s attorney slowed the case’s progress...
...Judge Charles M. Grabau ruled on May 10 that there was not sufficient evidence that pre-trial media coverage of the case would “prevent the selection of an impartial and unbiased jury...
According to witnesses called at the pre-trial hearing, Pring-Wilson then told Cambridge Police Department officers on the scene that he had observed a stabbing and that he was trying to “help...