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...don’t believe that Pring-Wilson was punished or rewarded because of his Harvard connections,” said Climenko Professor of Law Charles J. Ogletree. “Nor do I believe that the jury overvalued or undervalued the victim in this case because of his class or race. In my view, it proved many of the pundits wrong...
...comparison to media coverage, defense attorneys emphasized Pring-Wilson’s Harvard connection less often—though they mentioned his fluency in five languages and his proficiency at rugby—because of fears that local resentment towards Harvard would bias the jury against Pring-Wilson...
Court TV picked up the Cambridge trial live, bringing the case into the homes of millions of viewers. The network had originally planned to follow the sexual assault case against basketball star Kobe Bryant but an abrupt dismissal of the case brought Pring-Wilson into the national limelight...
Hansen alleges that it was District Attorney Martha Coakley’s aspiration to run for U.S. Senate—a post she was eyeing if Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) won his bid for the presidency—which led her to overcharge Pring-Wilson with first degree murder...
Although Court TV correspondent Savannah Guthrie admitted then that the “clash between the classes” element of the Pring-Wilson trial had attracted the public’s attention, she was not sure whether the case truly hinged on those issues...