u/GregJamesDahlen

This question arose for me from the David Burke (D4vd) case in California.

This week he was charged, at the same arraignment, with murder and sexual abuse of a minor. (There was a third charge but for this question I'm only asking about the two mentioned.)

It seems to me as a layperson that the murder case is much more complex than the sexual abuse case. So I wondered if it could happen that if he goes to trial on the two charges that he might go to trial on the sexual abuse case and then, in a later separate trial, on the murder case. (I say later on the murder case because since if I'm right and it's more complex I'd think many more legal processes, parley etc. before it could go to trial.)