Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Pring-Wilson
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided April 10, 2007PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMarshall, 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 Rodriguez started the fight, the defendant sought to introduce evidence of each man’s prior violent behavior. At the time of trial, the law of…
2Cases cited25 opinions
- Commonwealth v. HarringtonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1980
- Commonwealth v. KingMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2005
- Commonwealth v. PikeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1998
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- Commonwealth v. AdjutantMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2005
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