Worse and worse for Pring-Wilson
The Herald reports on yesterday’s hearing in which Alexander Pring-Wilson was denied bail.
An Ivy League whiz kid accused of down-and-dirty murder concocted three different tales of heroism for investigators, only to leave a boozy confession to the crime on a gal pal’s voice mail, prosecutors said in court yesterday.
Pring-Wilson apparently did not consider that, in the wake of murder, people might talk to each other. The Globe detailed his three different stories:
After Colono fled, Pring-Wilson dialed 911 on his cellphone and reported that he had just witnessed a fight but had not been involved, Lynch said. She said Pring-Wilson told the operator, ‘’I just saw it happen. I’m just a [expletive] bystander.'’He then called a friend, Jennifer Harmen, with whom he had gone to a reggae concert in Cambridge earlier on the night of the fight, and left a voice message in which he said, ‘’I got attacked by a group. Um, I fended them off. I stabbed them a couple of times and, um, don’t repeat this to the police,'’ according to the prosecutor.
Pring-Wilson later told fire and police officials that he jumped into an ongoing fight to try to stop it, Lynch said.
The lies were enough that the judge denied bail.
[Defense Attorney] Denner had presented [Judge] Singleton with polygraph test results, psychological reports, acceptance letters from nine law schools, and an inch-thick stack of recommendation letters to buttress his assertion that Pring-Wilson acted in self-defense while fighting with Colono and did not pose a risk of flight. …Singleton, however, was unmoved.
‘’His actions to conceal the crime led me to believe the defendant should be held without bail,'’ he said before denying Denner’s request.
You would think that someone accepted to nine different law schools would have been able to predict that lying to the police makes you appear untrustworthy.
