Alexander Pring-Wilsom the Harvard grad is granted a new trial!!!

[CW]

Though granted new trial, Harvard student far from being cleared

Alexander Pring-Wilson was granted a July 1 release from prison on $400,000 bond.
By Lisa Sweetingham
Court TV

Former Harvard grad student Alexander Pring-Wilson will be released from prison Friday. But he's not going home anytime soon, and with a lengthy appeals process and retrial ahead, he is far from being home-free.

Pring-Wilson was convicted last year in the stabbing death of a Cambridge, Mass., teenager. He was granted a new trial Friday by Middlesex Superior Court Judge Regina Quinlan based on a recent higher court decision that allows defendants who claim self-defense in murder trials to bring in evidence about the victim's alleged history of violence.

On Monday, Quinlan ordered the 27-year-old to be released July 1 from Bay State Correctional Center on $400,000 bail. His pending freedom has a few conditions.

http://www.courttv.com/trials/pring-wilson/062705_ctv.html

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http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=91858

Just nine months after being sent to the state lockup to serve a sentence for killing Michael Colono, the father of a then 3-year-old girl, Pring-Wilson is expected to walk out of his cell as early as Friday on $400,000 bail as he awaits a new trial.

Upon release, Pring-Wilson will be prohibited from traveling out of state and will be required to wear an electronic monitoring device. Parker said his mother was upset that her son will not be able to return home to Colorado.

http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=91858

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A state judge rejected a request by lawyers for the former Harvard University graduate student to be freed on modest bail or on his own recognizance and be allowed to go home to Colorado. Instead, Middlesex Superior Court Judge Regina L. Quinlan reinstated bail conditions in place during his first trial, ordering Pring-Wilson to stay in Massachusetts and give up his passport.

Pring-Wilson's mother, Cynthia Pring, a former Colorado Springs prosecutor, wept after Quinlan rebuffed the request to let her son return to Colorado Springs.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/06/28/high_bail_includes_remaining_in_state/

[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