Prosecutors in the case oppose the move, but Daybell's lawyers say the couple will offer "mutually antagonistic defenses" that would make it impossible for both to be acquitted if tried together.
Ex-cops Sean Dolan, Devon Smith and Brian Devaney pleaded to 10 counts of reckless endangerment for shooting into a crowd after a Philadelphia suburb's high school football game in August 2021. They killed Fanta Bility, whose family agreed to the plea.
A jury awarded $7.5 million in compensatory damages to a publicist who testified that filmmaker Paul Haggis raped her in 2013, and will return to consider punitive damages.
The punitive damages award by a Connecticut judge is in addition to the $965 million Alex Jones was ordered to pay in compensatory damages for repeatedly telling lies about the school shooting.
Holmes' lawyers had argued that a prosecution witness' effort to make personal amends did not amount to grounds to declare a mistrial, and scheduled her sentencing for Nov. 18.
The newest Supreme Court justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, issued her first written opinion this week — a dissent in support of Ohio inmate Davel Chinn. He faces the death penalty in a case where his lawyers argue exculpatory evidence was suppressed.
FIlmmaker Paul Haggis left the stand after becoming emotional at the end of his testimony in a lawsuit, admitting that he was a flawed person who repeated cheated on his then-wife.
