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Pring-Wilson, who has spent the last eight months in state prison, is now free as he awaits a new trial on manslaughter charges, which stem from an April 2003 fight outside a Cambridge pizza parlor that left Michael D. Colono dead...
Jurors in the original trial convicted Pring-Wilson of stabbing Colono, then 18 years old, during an April 12, 2003 confrontation outside Pizza Ring on Western Avenue. Pring-Wilson testified that he attacked Colono in self-defense, after being beaten by Colono and his cousin, Samuel L. Rodriguez—both of whom had prior criminal records involving drugs and violence. But prosecutors claimed Pring-Wilson had started the fight...
Pring-Wilson, who was until 2003 a student at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, has been in prison since October 2004, when a Middlesex County jury found him guilty of voluntary manslaughter in connection with the 2003 stabbing death of Cambridge teen Michael D. Colono...
Pring-Wilson, now 27, encountered the 18-year-old Colono and Michael D. Rodriguez, Colono’s cousin, outside a Cambridge pizza parlor on April 12, 2003, as he was walking home after a night of drinking. A fight erupted between Pring-Wilson and Colono and his cousin, with each of the two sides later claiming the other was at fault. Pring-Wilson fatally stabbed Colono during the altercation...
During the original trial, jurors learned that both Colono and Rodriguez had criminal histories, but they were not told many specifics. The new trial will include more of these details...