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Sep 11, 2007 1:34 pm US/Eastern

Separate Trials Requested In Bowling Brook Death

WESTMINSTER, Md. (AP) ― Attorneys representing counselors at a private reform school are asking that their clients be granted separate trials in the death of a Baltimore juvenile.

The six defendants are charged with reckless endangerment in the January death of 17-year-old Isaiah Simmons at the now closed Bowling Brook Preparatory School in Carroll County.

Simmons died while being restrained by staff.

At a hearing Monday, attorneys for some of the defendants argued that trying the defendants together would damage their ability to conduct cross-examinations.

Prosecutors say there is legal precedent for a single trial.

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