A traffic citation with three violations is going to be tried in the municipal court. There were three separate notices of trial, one for each violation. Is this a correct legal procedure to schedule each as a different case and at the exact same time as each other?|||Not only legal, but required.
Procedural rules require that all criminal charges arising from the same "series of bad acts" be tried at the same time. The government may not harass a defendant by making him keep coming back over and over to face separate trials on each count.
As a practical matter, in municipal court, all trials scheduled for a specific day are usually calendered for the same time - all traffic trials on the same day, for example, may be scheduled at 0830 - there's no way to know how long each will run, so everyone has to just show up at the same time and wait till they are called.
Richard|||the judge is probably going to handle all three at the same time. you can't be in three places at the same time. you need to call the court clerk and ask this.|||Yes, because they are three different cases, but are going to be heard at the same time.|||Yes.
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