expansive it is. do you think it could go to trial as early as october? reporter: i think it s extremely unlikely the request is going to be granted. it s one thing for a request like that to be granted at the defendant s insistence, but when you re talking about a group of people going to include a group of people that don t want to go to trial that quickly for significant legal reasons, they need to be able to defend themselves, and they could argue we need time to mount a defense, we shouldn t be tied to just this one guy who wants to go earlier than everyone else. i think it s a pretty, pretty high bar for her to clear to keep them all together. and it s one of the sort of consequences of bringing a case this large. i m sure that, you know, the d.a. and her colleagues foresaw this possibility and sort of prepared a contingency scenario around it. it s not the only adjacent court fight going on right now, and there s going to be more of this as the defendant s lawyers proceed thro