Even when the final results are in, outside experts said the evidence might not be enough to obtain an indictment.

The fact that it took more than a year to obtain an indictment, he said, showed the weakness of the state's case.

But "I don't see anything wrong" with obtaining an indictment for a later prosecution, he said in an interview.

With that information, prosecutors took the case to a grand jury and obtained an indictment.

During that time prosecutors did not take the case to a grand jury to obtain an indictment.

It took five more years to obtain an indictment.

They obtained an indictment against many of the Regulators charging them with murder.

The prosecution must obtain an indictment in that period or allow all charges to be dismissed.

You can take the records I have now and obtain indictments for maybe half .

It obtained an indictment in 1992 and, after four years of pretrial litigation, brought the case to trial this summer.