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Sitting expressionless at a table centered in the nearly-empty courtroom, Pring-Wilson, now 29 years old, listened attentively as Middlesex Superior Court Judge Christopher Muse began the proceedings. Seated next to Pring-Wilson was his lawyer E. Peter Parker, a graduate of Boston University Law School who now runs his own practice in Boston, and in front of them sat District Attorney Adrienne C. Lynch, a veteran prosecutor with 27 years of experience under her belt in Middlesex County. Yesterday marked the beginning of jury selection and the incipience of a trial set to last until...
This trial marks the latest development in the four-year long saga that began with a chance encounter between then-masters student in Russian and Slavic studies Pring-Wilson and the now deceased Michael D. Colono in the spring of 2003 outside a Western Avenue pizza parlor. According to his defense attorneys, Pring-Wilson acted in self-defense when he and Colono became involved in an altercation that ended with Pring-Wilson stabbing Colono five times in 70 seconds. Pring-Wilson was convicted and sentenced to six to eight years in prison in his 2004 trial...
...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...
...Certainly if there’s evidence that the man whom [Pring-Wilson] killed was violent that would support his story that [Colono] attacked him,” he said...