Chris Worrell’s knock at the door was answered with some hesitation by a neighbor on Nonquit Street in Uphams Corner last Saturday evening. Standing inside was a woman who was listening as Worrell – who is running for the open seat in the Fifth Suffolk District vacated by state Rep. Liz Miranda – stood on the doorstep and explained who he was and why he was asking for her
The Supreme Judicial Court on Tuesday ordered a new trial for Joseph Pope, who was convicted in 1986 for his role in a drug-related murder in Uphams Corner two years earlier. The court ruled that an assistant Suffolk County district attorney withheld notes he took during the murder investigation that that might have helped the defense. Pope was one of two men convicted for the