No Trial Separation . . . 0
. . . for the Regent and Milady. They are stuck with each other.
Bob and Maureen McDonnell will have their day in court, together, even if they would rather not.
U.S. District Judge James R. Spencer in three orders Tuesday denied motions by both defendants to dismiss many of the charges they face, to separate their trials, or give them access to communication records between prosecutors and the grand jury.
Afterthought:
A rule of thumb, though not an ironclad one: the weaker attorneys’ cases, the more pretrial motions they file. It’s the W. C. Fields theory of jurisprudence.
