Separate Consideration — Multiple Defendants Charged With Single Offense, is a legal term used to describe a situation in which multiple defendants are charged with the same crime. This means that each defendant will be tried separately, rather than as a group, and the outcome of each trial will be based solely on the individual circumstances of each case. There are two types of Separate Consideration — Multiple Defendants Charged With Single Offense: simultaneous separate trials and consecutive separate trials. In simultaneous separate trials, the court will hold multiple trials at the same time, with each defendant facing charges in their own individual trial. In consecutive separate trials, the court will hold multiple trials consecutively, where each defendant will have their own individual trial followed by the next defendant's trial.