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Jan 2, 2007 12:45 pm US/Eastern

Court Hears Argument To Keep Pring-Wilson In Jail

by Peg Rusconi
CAMBRIDGE (CBS4) ― Prosecutors are fighting to send a former Harvard University graduate student back to prison for killing a teenager.

Alexander Pring-Wilson was serving time for the death of 18-year-old Michael Colono. But he's been out on bail since a judge threw out his manslaughter conviction and ordered a new trial.

Pring-Wilson sat in the back of the courtroom Tuesday as Prosecutor Marguerite Grant argued he should be sent back to prison. Grant said the trial judge shouldn't have tossed his manslaughter conviction.

"The trial judge abused her power, Alexander Pring-Wilson took the stand in his own defense and confessed to events which resulted in manslaughter by excessive use of force."

Pring-Wilson was convicted of killing Colono in 2003 after an altercation on a Cambridge street.

Months later Judge Regina Quinlan threw out the conviction, after a higher court ruled juries should be allowed to consider a victim's violent past.

Several justices questioned how Pring-Wilson was supposed to respond when two people -- Colono and his cousin -- allegedly set upon him.

Pring-Wilson and his family declined comment Tuesday as did prosecutors. The defense attorney said he thought the hearing went well.

A decision is expected in several weeks. Pring-Wilson remains out on bail.

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