18 APPENDIX U.S.C. § 13 - Joint Trial of Separate Cases

• Library: United States Statutes
• Edition: 2023 Edition
• Currency: Current through P.L. 118-13 (published on www.congress.gov on 08/07/2023),Current through P.L. 118-19 (published on www.congress.gov on 10/06/2023)

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.

Cite as 18 APPENDIX U.S.C. § 13

Source: As amended Apr. 29, 2002, eff. Dec. 1, 2002.

Notes from the Office of Law Revision Counsel

current through 3/24/2023

NOTES OF ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON RULES-1944

This rule is substantially a restatement of existing law, 18 U.S.C. [former] 557 (Indictments and presentments; joinder of charges); Logan v. United States, 144 U.S. 263, 296; Showalter v. United States, 260 F. 719 (C.C.A. 4th)-cert. den., 250 U.S. 672; Hostetter v. United States, 16 F.2d 921 (C.C.A. 8th); Capone v. United States, 51 F.2d 609, 619-620 (C.C.A. 7th).