2006 Code of Virginia § 19.2-262.1 - Joinder of defendants
19.2-262.1. Joinder of defendants.
On motion of the Commonwealth, for good cause shown, the court shall orderpersons charged with participating in contemporaneous and related acts oroccurrences or in a series of acts or occurrences constituting an offense oroffenses, to be tried jointly unless such joint trial would constituteprejudice to a defendant. If the court finds that a joint trial wouldconstitute prejudice to a defendant, the court shall order severance as tothat defendant or provide such other relief justice requires.
(1993, cc. 462, 489; 1997, c. 518.)
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