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Nov 9, 2007 10:29 am US/Eastern

Key Witness To Testify In Harvard Student's Trial

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Click to enlarge 1 of 1: Pring-Wilson says he acted in self defense when he fatally stabbed Michael Colono, 18, during a street fight. (File Image)
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Jurors are hearing from a key witness Friday in the trial of a Harvard graduate student accused of stabbing a man to death during a street fight in Cambridge in 2003.

Alexander Pring-Wilson is back on trial this week to persuade the jury he acted in self defense when he stabbed the man to death in April 2003.

The victim's cousin was present at the time of the stabbing, prosecutors said, and he will testify that the killing was not in self defense.

Pring-Wilson, 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, began Monday in Middlesex Superior Court.

Pring-Wilson plans to testify, again.

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