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D.C. Super. Ct. Crim. R. 13
Joint Trial of Separate Cases
The court may order that separate cases be tried together as though brought in a
single indictment or information if all offenses and all defendants could have been joined
in a single indictment or information. If two or more defendants charged in separate
informations are alleged to have participated in the same act or transaction or in the
same series of acts and transactions constituting an offense or offenses, the
informations, if filed the same day, must, unless otherwise ordered by the court, be
treated as joined for purpose of trial. In that event, each such information must indicate
the other information or informations with which it is joined for purpose of trial.
History
COMMENT TO 2016 AMENDMENTS This rule has been redrafted to conform to the general restyling of the federal rules in 2002. The first sentence is identical to the federal rule. The remaining sentences, not found in the federal rule, are retained from the former Superior Court rule.
Provenance
- Source
- dccourts.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-14
- Edition
- 2026-09-14
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