Rule 208 - Joinder of Offenses and of Defendants(a) Joinder of Offenses. If several offenses are known to the prosecutor at the time of commencing the prosecution, all such offenses which are subject to the jurisdiction of the municipal court, upon which the prosecutor elects to proceed, must be prosecuted by separate counts in a single prosecution if they are based on the same act or series of acts arising from the same criminal episode. Any such offense not thus joined by separate count cannot thereafter be the basis of a subsequent prosecution. (b) Joinder of Defendants. Two or more defendants may be charged in the same complaint or summons and complaint if they are alleged to have participated in the same act or transaction or in the same series of acts or transactions constituting an offense or offenses. Such defendants may be charged on one or more counts together or separately, and all the defendants need not be charged on each count. Entire chapter amended June 30, 1988, effective 1/1/1989.