misjoinder

If an unrelated claim is joined, however, this claim will be stricken as a misjoinder.

In legal procedure (both civil and criminal), misjoinder refers to a wrongful joinder.

However, in December 2010, judge John Preston Bailey severed all but one of the defendants, citing misjoinder.

Misjoinder of causes of action, or counts, consists in joining several demands to enforce substantive rights of recovery that are distinct and contradictory.

Misjoinder of parties consists in joining as plaintiffs or defendants persons who have conflicting interests, or who were not involved in the same transaction or event.

I remember an appeal I did for a client sentenced to six years' jail, inter alia, for importing a-go-go dancers and it was on the sole ground of misjoinder of charges.