Word: pring
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...second trial of the Harvard graduate student charged with manslaughter ended quietly in a mistrial last month, marking another turn in a case that now appears headed for a third trial. As the legal saga nears its fifth year, few professors and classmates of Alexander Pring-Wilson remain on campus—but those who knew him at the time recall an affable and intelligent student thrust into a tragic situation...
...Pring-Wilson, now 29 years old, fatally stabbed 18-year-old Michael D. Colono outside of a Western Avenue pizzeria on April 12, 2003, in what he claimed was an act of self-defense. After being found guilty of voluntary manslaughter in October 2004, a second trial was granted when the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that evidence about the victim’s violent past could be considered...
National media attention in the first trial focused on the class difference between Pring-Wilson and Colono, highlighting the contrast between Harvard’s student body and the residents of the surrounding town. Pring-Wilson was a graduate student at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, part of the Graduate School for Arts and Sciences, and had been accepted to law school in his native Colorado...
...complete coverage of the Pring-Wilson trial, please see http://www.thecrimson.com/crime.aspx.
...ruling on an unrelated case from the Mass. Supreme Judicial Court prompted Superior Court Judge Regina L. Quinlan to grant Pring-Wilson a retrial on the grounds that Colono’s criminal record—which included throwing money in the face of a cashier an shattering the window of a restaurant—could be admitted as evidence, though it was not in the first trial...