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...state’s highest court, handed down a ruling allowing juries to consider a victim’s violent history in self-defense cases, even if the parties did not know each other beforehand. Colono’s violent history was excluded from the original trial. Pring-Wilson??€™s lawyers appealed and in 2005 Judge Regina L. Quinlan overturned Pring-Wilson??€™s conviction and called for a new trial. The prosecution appealed Quinlan’s decision but the SJC upheld it in April of this year...
Harvard Law School professor Lloyd L. Weinreb, though unfamiliar with the specifics of Pring-Wilson??€™s case said that the role this new evidence will play in the trial is uncertain, but could give a leg up to the defense if strong enough. The question at the heart of the case is who was the aggressor in the altercation...
...Although Pring-Wilson??€™s defense attorneys argued that his actions were in self-defense, the former Russian and Slavic Studies student was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter in October 2004 and sentenced to six to eight years in prison...
...Pring-Wilson??€”who is currently under house arrest after being released on bail in 2004—did not know Colono or his cousin Samuel D. Rodriguez, who was also involved in the fight, prior to their altercation...
...June 2005, Quinlan ruled to overturn Pring-Wilson??€™s conviction and move for a retrial...