United States v. Ledbetter

OPINION & ORDER

ALGENON L. MARBLEY, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

This matter comes before the Court on the Government’s notice of proposed trial groupings and Defendants’ motions to sever due to an alleged misjoinder under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 8(b) or prejudicial joinder under Rule 14.1 Under the Government’s proposal, the defendants would stand trial in three separate groupings, based on a commonality of evidence and by trying together all co-defendants who are charged in each substantive murder count. Defendants oppose these trial groupings for a host reasons,.including the…