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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...
...issue in the appeal is a March 2005 SJC ruling that allows juries to learn of victims’ violent pasts if it can help them determine who was the aggressor in a fight...
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...
...time of Pring-Wilson’s 2004 trial, Massachusetts law gave judges discretion on whether to admit a victim’s violent past as evidence...
During the original trial, lawyers for Pring-Wilson had sought to portray Colono’s stabbing as an act of self-defense. But an important part of that strategy—presenting the allegedly violent past histories of Colono and his cousin, who was also at the scene—was blocked by Quinlan...