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Middlesex Superior Court Judge Regina Quinlan told the jury she would make available a transcript of her original instructions for their review. And Quinlan spent nearly a half hour yesterday elaborating on the prosecution’s burden in proving Pring-Wilson did not act in self-defense when he fatally stabbed a Cambridge teenager in April...
Lawyers for Pring-Wilson on Friday called for a mistrial in light of the jury’s confusion, but Quinlan immediately dismissed the motion. Yesterday she said her clarification, along with the transcript of her original instructions, should be sufficient to clear up any of the jurors’ remaining questions...
...issue is whether a defendant’s use of force reasonably seemed to be the only means to protect himself under the circumstances,” Quinlan told the jury...
...cameras affected it because you had a judge who wasn’t strong and didn’t run a tight ship,” Guthrie says. But she says that Regina Quinlan, the judge in the Pring-Wilson trial, “doesn’t let media run roughshod over the proceedings...
...criminal defense attorney Yale Galanter, who has been tracking the Pring-Wilson trial for CourtTV, said Quinlan would likely give jurors the option of convicting Pring-Wilson on the lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter—which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years...