United States DC Circuit

Where defendant attempts to sever her trial from that of co-defendants under Fed. R. Crim. P. 14, the district court's interest in judicial economy is a sufficient basis to deny severance.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/10/2001
• Decided 06/29/2001
• Published 06/29/2001

Judges

• Before:  GINSBURG and HENDERSON, Circuit Judges, and SILBERMAN, Senior Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States DC Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Lexi Negin-Christ, appointed by the court, argued the cause for the appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Mary B. McCord, Assistant United States Attorney, argued the cause for the appellee.  Wilma A. Lewis, United States Attorney at the time the brief was filed, and John R. Fisher and Elizabeth Trosman, Assistant United States Attorneys, were on brief for the appellee.