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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...
...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...
...Barwood and Matthew Robbins, directed by the former, works very well as a hard-charging chiller. The nasty microbe in the lab turns people into murderous psychopaths when it infects them. And they, in turn, convert the facility into a kind of high-tech haunted house. Kathleen Quinlan is attractive as the uninfected security guard most imperiled by these creatures. She may be scared, but never out of her wits. Jeffrey De Munn nicely underplays the independent scientist trying to set things to rights. The rest of the cast is not as strong, but Barwood effectively hurtles the action down...
Superior Court Judge Regina Quinlan handed Pring-Wilson a six-to-eight year sentence—a reduction from the recommended 8-to-12 years—only two hours after the jury’s verdict, bringing the case to a climactic...
...Quinlan reconvened the parties last week to discuss whether a retrial is in order, in light of the recent SJC ruling...