Marshall indictment tossed on error

The jury trial of a Wrangell man for a 2011 assault is now on hold after an indictment against him was dismissed in First District Court.

Steven Marshall, 53, who was arrested on Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011 at a residence in the Bloom Trailer Court after Wrangell Police Department officers responded to an argument between him and his girlfriend, will not go to trial next week as originally planned after Judge William B. Carey dismissed the indictment because of an error in the instructions given to members of the grand jury.

Although Carey’s order had not yet been signed by deadline for this story...