BANGOR (AP) — Lawyers for two men charged with shooting three Maine residents then burning their bodies inside a car in Bangor have asked for separate trials.
Defense attorneys for Nicholas Sexton, 32, of Warwick, R.I., and Randall Daluz, 35, of Brockton, Mass., argued in court Thursday that separate trials are necessary to ensure their clients get fair trials.
Prosecutors argued that since the evidence against both men is the same they should be tried together.
The judge did not immediately rule.
Prosecutors say the defendants killed the victims in a drug-related dispute in August 2012.
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