joint trial

Several defense lawyers have already objected to a joint trial.

Such a large joint trial would dwarf any other proceedings the court has held.

As a result, the joint trial could be an appellate issue as well.

The joint trial with three other senior military officers charged as co-conspirators opened on April 2, 2002.

In seeking a joint trial, prosecutors offered to limit the evidence they would offer from this interview to these three statements.

"The court cannot save a joint trial by sacrificing the interests of one defendant to protect the other.

The arraignment set the scene for what is expected to become a joint trial of three senior Croatian commanders.

A joint trial for the imprisoned aid workers began September 1 in Kabul.

And prosecutors should "make an especially compelling justification for a joint trial of more than 10 defendants," the appeals court said.

Cruz and Hernandez were convicted in a joint trial and sentenced to death.

If a trial seems likely to exceed four months, prosecutors should show why a joint trial would be fairer, the court said.

In joint trials, each defendant's character and actions tend to affect the jury's view of other defendant, an advantage for prosecutors.

"Timothy McVeigh will be profoundly prejudiced by a joint trial in this case.

The judges said the remaining cases would proceed to trial separately in state and Federal court, rather than in a joint trial.

As of 2006, his joint trial with other FAR officers implicated in the genocide is currently underway.

He was lead prosecutor in the joint trial of Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling.

Judge Matsch discarded the possibility of a joint trial with separate juries, noting that "logistically, it is impracticable."

The communists were put into a joint trial with Max Goldstein, an anarchist who bombed the Senate, killing three people.

"A joint trial would be legally sound, politically effective, administratively and financially cost-effective and of high moral and educative value."

Some lawyers who follow the court have said they fear that a joint trial could become a management nightmare, involving at least 18 defense lawyers and many prosecutors.

On Aug. 23, prosecutors withdrew their request for a joint trial, seeking to proceed against Mr. Rodriguez separately.

Mr. Dillon and Mr. Catterson said state law precluded a joint trial covering indictments in several counties.

That's the question as the team investigates two new cases in back-to-back episodes, including one in which the accused may have been hurt by being in a joint trial.

The dissidents were arrested more than two years ago in a crackdown on newly formed pro-democracy and labor groups, and their joint trial has been repeatedly postponed until now.

Use of Mr. Peterson's statement in any joint trial, Ms. Grossberg's lawyers said, could prejudice her case and violate her Constitutional rights.