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Assistant District Attorney Adrienne C. Lynch paced in front the witness stand, arms crossed, unruly white and gray hair spread over the shoulders of her charcoal suit. Her voice, clear and insistent, carried to every corner of the small courtroom during her cross examination of Alexander Pring-Wilson...
...Pring-Wilson, a former Harvard graduate student charged with the April 12, 2003 manslaughter of Cambridge resident Michael D. Colono, remained composed as Lynch grilled him on the details of the night when a chance encounter between Pring-Wilson and Colono ended in Colono’s death. He cut a calm and unassuming figure in an olive suit with a dark purple tie, the tenor of his voice never changing, even as his testimony moved into his conduct during the stabbing...
...Middlesex Superior Court judge granted Pring-Wilson a retrial, after the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that evidence about a victim’s violent past could be used at trial. That decision invalidated Pring-Wilson’s earlier conviction...
...Before Pring-Wilson’s testimony, the defense called character witnesses who vouched for the defendant’s “peaceful” reputation In the midst of one witness’s testimony, a power outage occurred, halting proceedings for an hour and trapping some people in the courthouse elevator. Proceedings resumed...
...beginning of the afternoon session, defense attorney E. Peter Parker questioned his client briefly. When asked multiple times why he lied in his initial reports to police, Pring-Wilson said, “It was my impression at the time that I was the only victim...I just wanted to go home...