State v. Echols
Ohio Court of Appeals
1Opinion of the Court
Painter, Judge.
I. FOURTEEN COUNTS FOR THE PRICE OF ONE
The state argued, in part, that, taxpayers could save money by trying appellant Lonnie Curtis Echols on six counts of robbery, six counts of aggravated robbery, and two counts of kidnapping in a single trial. We recognize that multiple criminal charges may be joined in a single trial under Crim.R. 8(A) and that joinder can, in some instances, serve the purposes for which the rule was created — “to conserve judicial resources, reduce the chance of incongruous results in successive trials, and diminish inconvenience to the witnesses.” 1 This…
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