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...full five months after jurors convicted former Harvard graduate student Alexander Pring-Wilson of voluntary manslaughter, a Superior Court judge may overturn the conviction in light of a recent Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) decision asserting that evidence of a victim’s violent past is admissible in court...
Middlesex Superior Court Judge Regina Quinlan—the same judge who handed down the six-to-eight year prison sentence that Pring-Wilson is currently serving—will decide in a hearing on April 15 whether to order a new trial...
...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...
...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...
...implications of the decision do not apply retroactively, and “shall apply only prospectively.” Thus Quinlan is not forced to retract her ruling excluding evidence about Colono’s past history in the Pring-Wilson case. However, she voluntarily called the upcoming hearing and will consider a new trial if she determines that Colono’s history is relevant to the case...