Code of Virginia - Title 19.2 Criminal Procedure - Section 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 order persons charged with participating in contemporaneous and related acts or occurrences or in a series of acts or occurrences constituting an offense or offenses, to be tried jointly unless such joint trial would constitute prejudice to a defendant. If the court finds that a joint trial would constitute prejudice to a defendant, the court shall order severance as to that defendant or provide such other relief justice requires.

(1993, cc. 462, 489; 1997, c. 518.)

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