{"data":{"id":"us-il/725-ilcs-5-114-8","jurisdiction":"us-il","citation":"725 ILCS 5/114-8","heading":"Motion for severance.","body":"(a) If it appears that a defendant or the State is prejudiced by a joinder of related prosecutions or defendants in a single charge or by joinder of separate charges or defendants for trial the court may order separate trials, grant a severance of defendants, or provide any other relief as justice may require.\n(b) In the case of a prosecution of multiple defendants for criminal sexual assault, aggravated criminal sexual assault, predatory criminal sexual assault of a child, criminal sexual abuse, or aggravated criminal sexual abuse arising out of the same course of conduct, the court, in deciding a motion to sever the charges and try the defendants separately, must consider, subject to constitutional limitations, the impact upon the alleged victim of multiple trials requiring the victim's testimony.","path":["CHAPTER 725 CRIMINAL PROCEDURE","Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963."],"source_url":"https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ILCS/details?ActID=1966\u0026ChapterID=54\u0026ChapAct=FullText\u0026Print=True","current_through":"at least Public Act 104-790","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-15T04:46:42Z","sha256":"0b253c4b241f9a08aa726a6928675461c4baa6c0cf241318c300585b9ff46222","source_id":"us-il","stale":false,"prev":"us-il/725-ilcs-5-114-7","next":"us-il/725-ilcs-5-114-9"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}