COMMONWEALTH v. PRING-WILSON


448 Mass. 718 (2007)

COMMONWEALTH vs. ALEXANDER PRING-WILSON.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

April 10, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marguerite T. Grant, Assistant District Attorney (Adrienne C. Lynch, Assistant District Attorney, with her) for the Commonwealth.

Charles W. Rankin (Jonathan Harwell with him) for the defendant.

Present: MARSHALL, C.J., GREANEY, IRELAND, SPINA, COWIN, & CORDY, JJ.


MARSHALL, C.J.

In the early morning of April 12, 2003, the defendant, Alexander Pring-Wilson, became entangled in a fight with Michael Colono and Samuel Rodriguez outside a pizza restaurant in Cambridge. During the brawl, the defendant stabbed Colono, who later died. The defendant was indicted and tried on a charge of murder in the first degree.

The central issue at trial was whether the defendant acted in self-defense. To support his theory that Colono or...

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