Word: abramson
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...factors prevented jurors from acquitting Pring-Wilson outright, said Jeffrey B. Abramson, who is a visiting professor of government...
...First, the victim and his friends were unarmed, so it would have been reasonable for the jury to think Pring-Wilson’s use of a knife to strike repeated and deadly blows to the chest was…excessive force,” said Abramson, a former Middlesex assistant district attorney...
...Secondly, Pring-Wilson no doubt lost his best chance at establishing self-defense when, in the moments after the fight, he made a 911 call but lied to the police about his involvement in the fight,” Abramson said...
...wording of the statute says that the jury shall find the degree of murder,” Abramson says. “Prosecutors often rely on that to say they should just generally charge all the way up and leave the jury to sort out...first versus second degree...
...Some people feared that this [Pring-Wilson] case would provoke the same kind of—if not race—then class animosities” as the Soares trial, says visiting Professor of Government Jeffrey B. Abramson, a former Middlesex County assistant district attorney. But he says the Pring-Wilson trial has not yet elicited heated tensions in Cambridge...