Jury helps make a case; DAs tout `grand' investigative tool.
Byline: Matthew Bruun FITCHBURG - Gunshots echoed among the cracks of exploding fireworks on Congress Street July 3, a bloody ending to an Independence Day celebration. Nelson Ortega, 32, of Boston was killed with a single gunshot wound to the head. Ryan J. O'Neill, 19,...

U.S. court indicts Uhl on tax charges; Federal grand jury hands up 12 counts.
Byline: Steven H. Foskett Jr. Worcester lawyer Christopher M. Uhl was indicted yesterday in federal court in Boston for tax evasion and failure to pay taxes, the Boston U.S. attorney's office said. Mr. Uhl, 50, of Southboro, was indicted on six counts of tax evasion...

Grand juries, legal machines, and the common man jury.
Linda S. Myrsiades Grand Juries, Legal Machines, and the Common Man Jury This paper focuses on the concept of a jury of one's neighbors, that is, the common man jury. It traces this construction through two eighteenth-century trails (the trials of John Peter Zenger, 1735, and of...

Grand Jury indicts three; Northboro Shopping Center one target of fire crimes.
WORCESTER - Two Shrewsbury teenagers were indicted by a Worcester County Grand Jury July 25 on a variety charges stemming from a fire that destroyed six businesses in the Northboro Shopping Center on March 25, according to Worcester District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr. The two defendants...

Student accused in robbery ...waits; Grand jury hearing testimony.
Byline: Danielle M. Williamson FITCHBURG - A Fitchburg State College student accused of robbing a bank last month is waiting for a grand jury to determine whether he will be indicted on three felony charges, or if his case will be dismissed. Matthew E. Haney,...

Grand jury returns indictments in 5 homicides; One case dates to a 1984 stabbing of a 79-year-old Worcester woman.
Byline: Gary V. Murray WORCESTER - A Worcester County grand jury handed up indictments this week in five pending homicide cases. Included in the indictments are: the 1984 slaying of a 79-year-old city woman; fatal stabbings in Worcester and Millbury; the shooting death of an...

Lower bail is denied for accused bank thief; Lawyer sought change from $40K to $20K.
Byline: Gary V. Murray WORCESTER - An accused bank robber's bid for reduced bail was denied yesterday by a Worcester Superior Court judge. Robert P. Marlborough, 28, of 42 Houghton St., Apt. 3, was indicted by a Worcester County grand jury Aug. 22 on two...

Two execs in alleged bank scam arraigned; `Not guilty' entered in Gitto/Global case.
Byline: Martin Luttrell BOSTON - Two executives of the former Gitto/Global Corp. plastics manufacturer were arraigned in U.S. District Court yesterday on charges of conspiracy and wire fraud, in connection with an alleged scheme to defraud banks. Gary C. Gitto and Charles N. Gitto Jr.,...

Regional digest.
COLUMN: Regional digest Driver indicted in fatal crash The driver of a car involved in a crash in Douglas over the summer that killed a 22-year-old woman has been indicted on motor vehicle homicide and drug charges. Michael Murch, 31, of 55 Mendon...

Grand jury declines to indict Billy Ayala.
Byline: Scott J. Croteau WORCESTER - A Worcester grand jury has declined to indict Billy Ayala, the former director of family services and interim director of Centro Las Americas, on charges he raped a 12-year-old girl. The "no bill," which means the grand jury opted...