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...mistrial means Alexander Pring-Wilson will likely be granted a third trial, continuing the four-year legal saga that began when he fatally stabbed an 18-year-old hotel cook outside of a Western Avenue pizzeria...
Pring-Wilson's attorney, E. Peter Parker, could not be reached for comment Friday. He told the Associated Press: "We are thrilled that a number of jurors at this trial saw the commonwealth's case for what it was, and found that Alex's conduct was a justified act of self-defense." —Staff writer Jamison A. Hill can be reached at jahill@fas.harvard.edu. FOR THE CRIMSON'S COMPLETE PRING-WILSON COVERAGE, CLICK HERE
...delicate handiwork, we were aware of the grandeur of what we had accomplished. Already the gummy bear gypsies began to congregate at the front steps. Neither war nor revolution, neither tableshaking nor hungry bystanders could destroy what we had created that day.Finally, we stood before the last judgment, a trial we were well prepared to face. House tutors walked around the dining hall, asking questions like “What does your gingerbread house represent?” (the House of God!) and “Is it to scale?” (YES!). Aliza took pains to explain...
...Thursday, after nine days of deliberation, a jury acquitted one of the defendants, Lyglenson Lemorin, and gave up on the remaining six. The judge declared mistrials in those cases, and a new trial is scheduled for next year. It was a major loss for the government. In 2006, after the arrests, then-U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales heralded the arrests and warned that, if "left unchecked, these homegrown terrorists may prove to be as dangerous as groups like al-Qaeda...
...leaders have since disavowed any links to the men.) On March 16, 2006, the men were recorded by the FBI vowing to be Islamic soldiers and to act at the direction of al-Qaeda, according to a motion filed by the government, which played the tape twice during the trial...