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...mistrial means Alexander Pring-Wilson will likely be granted a third trial, continuing the four-year legal case that began when he fatally stabbed an 18-year-old hotel cook during an altercation outside of a Western Avenue pizzeria...
...Pring-Wilson, 29, said he acted out of self-defense in stabbing Cambridge resident Michael D. Colono, but he was convicted in 2004 of manslaughter...
...Friday, the Middlesex district attorney pledged to try Pring-Wilson for a third time, citing several pieces of “compelling” evidence in the case—inconsistent statements Pring-Wilson gave the police, the presence of Colono’s blood on Pring-Wilson’s clothes, and the fact that the knife used to kill Colono was found in Pring-Wilson’s apartment...
...Pring-Wilson, who was a masters degree student at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies during his time at Harvard, is currently free on a previously-posted $400,000 bail...
...Pring-Wilson's attorney, E. Peter Parker, could not be reached for comment Friday. He told the Associated Press: "We are thrilled that a number of jurors at this trial saw the commonwealth's case for what it was, and found that Alex's conduct was a justified act of self-defense." —Staff writer Jamison A. Hill can be reached at jahill@fas.harvard.edu. FOR THE CRIMSON'S COMPLETE PRING-WILSON COVERAGE, CLICK HERE