PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A defense lawyer accused of plotting to bribe a witness will be tried with the stabbing suspect at the center of the alleged conspiracy.
Superior Court Judge Robert D. Krause refused to sever defense lawyer Donna Uhlmann's trial from that of Jamaal Dublin, a suspect in a stabbing case.
Uhlmann and Dublin are accused of conspiring with Dublin's then-lawyer to bribe a man Dublin allegedly stabbed outside a wake not to testify against him. Gerard H. Donley, the other lawyer implicated, was sentenced Wednesday to serve six years in prison for his role in the alleged conspiracy.
Dublin had argued through his current lawyer Christopher Millea that much of the testimony at trial would be against Uhlmann and that it would have a "severe" prejudicial effect on his case. Jurors, Millea said, would be unable to differentiate between Uhlmann and Dublin. He asserted his client should be tried separately.
Krause ruled that all the statements made were made in the furtherance of an alleged conspiracy and would be admissible at any trial involving alleged co-conspirators.
"To the extent you claim there is going to be a spillover effect ... such claims are not enough to invite severance," Krause said.
"Those indicted together get tried together," the judge said.
Uhlmann and Dublin are set to go to trial Sept. 23.