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Eight months after former Harvard graduate student Alexander Pring-Wilson was convicted of manslaughter in the 2003 stabbing death of Cambridge resident Michael D. Colono, the judge in his trial threw out the verdict...
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...
...Pring-Wilson, who has been serving the start of his six-to-eight-year prison term since October 2004, will appear in court today, where his lawyers will argue that he should be freed on bail while awaiting a new trial...
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...