By Gintautas Dumcius
Reporter Correspondent

Eight months after he was acquitted by a Suffolk Superior Court jury of a 2004 murder of a Franklin Hill resident, a Mattapan man was in Dorchester District Court on Tuesday. He now is the subject of a grand jury investigation that has "nothing," according to his defense attorney.

Curtis Jiles, 35, was arraigned Tuesday on charges of attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon, among others, stemming from a Sept. 10 shooting at 234 Callender Street. He was arrested on Nov. 4 at about 3 a.m.

John Hayes, the court-appointed attorney from the Committee for Public Counsel Services, said Jiles, who is currently unemployed and awaiting surgery, is aware he is the subject of a 2-month old grand jury investigation into the shooting.

A spokesman for Suffolk District Attorney Daniel Conley couldn't confirm or deny the grand jury. Grand jury proceedings are confidential, spokesman Jake Wark said.

The victim is the boyfriend of his girlfriend's daughter, he added, and the witness, who is his girlfriend's daughter, has since recanted what she told police after the shooting and said she didn't see the shooter. The victim was shot in the buttocks and the pelvis.

The grand jury has also called in other members of the girlfriend's family, Hayes said. "They have nothing," he told the court of the grand jury.

"This is not a gang situation," he added. Hayes said Jiles continues to have a relationship with the girlfriend, though he doesn't live with her or her daughter.

Prosecutors said Jiles had a lengthy record, spanning six pages and dating back to the 1980s, littered with drug offenses, assaults and batteries, firearm possession, and breaking and entering. They asked for $500,000 bail, while Hayes argued for $5,000 bail, saying that Jiles would not flee, and had every opportunity to do so over the last two months.

District Court Judge Robert Ziemian set bail at $301,000. Jiles's next court date is Nov. 29.

Three arraigned in Fuller Street marijuana bust

Two men, including one from Dorchester, and a Maine woman were arraigned this week, caught in the heavy rain on Saturday with seven pounds of marijuana and over $3,000 in cash. The alleged haul was so big, District C-11 police couldn't fit it all in their drug safe, and instead had to use a District B-3 gun locker.

Saint Michael Brown, 43, of 3 Ballou Ave., was charged with intending to distribute. Painter Curtis Cobb, 44, of Marshfield, and Kathleen Lee, 24, of Portland, Maine were charged with possession of marijuana.

Brown's court-appointed attorney, Nitin Dalal, argued to a low bail, saying Brown, who lives with his fiancée in Dorchester and works at an auto body shop, was "very cooperative" with police, allowing them into his home to find an additional stash. The attorney for Lee, who has a warrant out of Dorchester District Court, said she had been just a passenger in the car that cops found the marijuana in.

Judge Sydney Hanlon set bail at $2,5000 each. Their next court date is Nov. 28.

Gintautas Dumcius covers court proceedings and law enforcement for the Reporter. He can be reached at gin.dumcius@gmail.com.

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