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2nd Trial For Harvard Grad Student Begins Monday

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Nov 4, 2007 3:20 pm US/Eastern

2nd Trial For Harvard Grad Student Begins Monday

CAMBRDIGE (WBZ) ― Harvard graduate student Alexander Pring-Wilson will go back on trial this week to persuade the jury he acted in self defense when he stabbed a man to death in April 2003.

The now 29-year-old was convicted of manslaughter in his first trial.

Pring-Wilson says he acted in self defense when he fatally stabbed Michael Colono, 18, during a street fight.

The former grad-student's second trial is possible because of a ruling issued by the Supreme Judicial Court five months after he was convicted, that allows juries to consider a victim's violent past if it sheds light on a self-defense claim.

Pring-Wilson's trial, which is expected to last up to one month, will begin on Monday in Middlesex Superior Court.

Pring-Wilson plans to testify again.


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