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Second Pring-Wilson Murder Trial in Massachusetts Ends in Mistrial

By Altman & Altman

In Massachusetts, the second murder trial of former Harvard graduate student Alexander Pring-Wilson has ended in a mistrial. Middlesex Superior Court judge Christopher Muse granted a mistrial in the case because the jury was hopelessly deadlocked. They were unable to reach a verdict after deliberating for 10 days. Pring-Wilson, 29, is charged with manslaughter in the 2003 stabbing murder of 18-year-old Michael Colono. The killing took place in Cambridge during a drunken, late-night brawl. Wilson stabbed Colono a number of times with a military folding knife. Pring-Wilson was convicted of manslaughter in 2004 and sentenced to six to eight years in prison. In 2005, his conviction was overturned and the Massachusetts?s Supreme Judicial Court, however, granted him a new trial when it ruled that jurors should have been informed of Colono?s criminal and violent history...continue to full post

Full post as published by Boston Criminal lawyer Blog on December 14, 2007 (boomark / email).