Opinion ID: 2172088
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Heading: Joint Trial on Multiple Indictments

Text: Defendant's remaining point on appeal concerns the Superior Court's alleged error in permitting him to be tried on all twelve indictments at a single trial. Our procedural rules invest the trial justice with discretion to order joinder or severance of indictments for trial. Rules 13, 14, M.R. Crim.P. We here discern no abuse of the discretion thus entrusted to the trial justice. See State v. Gordon, Me., 321 A.2d 352, 361-62 (1964). The justice instructed the jury not to consider the multiplicity of indictments as any evidence of the defendant's guilt. In any event, defendant failed to make any objection below to a single trial upon all twelve indictments. The entry must be: Appeal denied. Judgments affirmed. DELAHANTY, J., did not sit.