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...judge in the original case, Regina L. Quinlan, granted Pring-Wilson a retrial on June 24, citing a recent Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) decision that increases how much juries can learn about the violent pasts of victims...
Quinlan reconvened the parties last week to discuss whether a retrial is in order, in light of the recent SJC ruling...
...student Alexander Pring-Wilson was tried and convicted last fall for fatally stabbing Michael D. Colono during an altercation outside a pizzeria on Western Avenue, in what Pring-Wilson argues was self-defense. But the three-week trial may have been for naught if Judge Regina Quinlan orders a retrial in light of a recent Superior Judicial Court (SJC) ruling, which asserted that evidence of a victim’s violent past is admissible in court...
Although the judge is not bound by the SJC ruling to consider a retrial for Pring-Wilson, it is incumbent upon her to mull over the possibility, said Climenko Professor of Law Charles J. Ogletree...
Although the judge is not bound by the SJC ruling to consider a retrial for Pring-Wilson, it is incumbent upon her to mull over the possibility, said Climenko Professor of Law Charles J. Ogletree...