Harvard student's murder trial delayed The attorney for a Harvard University graduate student accused of killing a Cambridge teenager in an early-morning fight has withdrawn from the case, forcing a three-month delay in the trial. Attorney Jeffrey Denner filed the motion to withdraw last week, citing "irreconcilable differences" with Alexander Pring-Wilson, The Harvard Crimson newspaper reported. The trial is now scheduled to begin in Middlesex Superior Court on Sept. 13. Pring-Wilson, 26, pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the fatal stabbing of 18-year-old Michael Colono in April 2003, during an altercation outside a Cambridge pizza parlor. He said he acted in self-defense. Pring-Wilson remains under house arrest in his Somerville apartment. (AP)

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