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Middlesex Superior Court Judge Regina L. Quinlan said on Friday that Pring-Wilson deserved a new trial in light of a March 14 Mass. Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) ruling that a victim’s violent past can be admitted as evidence in trial, even if the defendant did not know about the victim’s violent history at the time of the incident...
...time of Pring-Wilson’s 2004 trial, Massachusetts law gave judges discretion on whether to admit a victim’s violent past as evidence...
Quinlan said that Pring-Wilson deserved a new trial because evidence she originally suppressed “went directly to the heart of the case’s central dispute” over whether Pring-Wilson or Colono had initiated the fatal fight...
...Pring-Wilson, who has been serving the start of his six-to-eight-year prison term since October 2004, will appear in court today, where his lawyers will argue that he should be freed on bail while awaiting a new trial...
During the original trial, lawyers for Pring-Wilson had sought to portray Colono’s stabbing as an act of self-defense. But an important part of that strategy—presenting the allegedly violent past histories of Colono and his cousin, who was also at the scene—was blocked by Quinlan...