GUILTY MA - Michael Colono, 18, stabbed to death, Cambridge, 12 April 2003

[peggy]

What a surprise - thought he was lucky only to be convicted of manslaughter, never believed his self-defense story. Guess he wants total vindication now.

 

[SadieMae]

I guess that goes to show, if you have money, you can get outta jail. I didn't think his sentence was so harsh to begin with. He did take a life and no I don't believe it was self defense. I'm not happy about it, if it were the other way around Michael would have been put under the jail.

JMO

 

[OkieGranny]

From March 2012:

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/20...mbridge-man/XcfcYT306KHBXrEzpb7vEI/story.html

The Massachusetts Appeals Court upheld a negligence finding Tuesday in a civil suit against Alexander Pring-Wilson, the Harvard graduate student who fatally stabbed a Cambridge man in a fight on a Cambridge street in April 2003...

In January 2008, Pring-Wilson pleaded guilty in Middlesex Superior Court to involuntary manslaughter and was sentenced to two years and one day in state prison.

He was charged with murder in 2003. In 2004, a jury convicted him of manslaughter and sentenced him to six to eight years in state prison. A Superior Court judge ordered a new trial in 2005... That new trial was held in fall 2007, but the jury deadlocked. Pring-Wilson’s lawyers, prosecutors, and a judge then reached the plea agreement.