“He was cold and calculated,” she said. “He lied to the police. He told them what he thought they wanted to hear.”
Lynch added that Pring-Wilson’s emotional testimony on Tuesday, in which he broke into sobs and gasped for breath for nearly a minute, was another example of his deception.
“The over-acted, the over-scripted, over-dramatic unconvincing performance—it was like a bad game of charades,” she said.
Lynch argued that the injuries Pring-Wilson sustained don’t substantiate the defense’s claim that he was the victim.
“Sammy Rodriguez and Michael Colono were no shrinking violets, and no one is saying that they were,” he said.
“But if the defendant took [such a] severe beating...there would be more physical injury to show for it than a smirk and a welt on your forehead.”
District Attorney spokeswoman Melissa Sherman said the jury’s verdict could come at any moment.
“There’s no time limit,” Sherman said. “Some people think maybe tomorrow, some [think] maybe early next week, but that’s a guesstimate.”
—Staff writer Hana R. Alberts can be reached at alberts@fas.harvard.edu.