Cherry v. Commonwealth

I respectfully dissent. RCr 6.18, in tandem with RCr 9.12, governs the circumstances in which different offenses charged against the same defendant may be prosecuted in the same trial.5 RCr 6.18, which *801exclusively provides the criteria for determining when different crimes may properly be joined in a single trial, identifies two instances for the proper joinder of separate crimes. As rioted by Professor Abramson, “The Commonwealth may charge separate crimes in separate counts if the offenses: (1) are of the same or similar character; or (2) are-based on the same acts or transactions connected…