P.R. Laws Ap. tit. 34A, § II, Rule 89
The court may order that two (2) or more informations or complaints be tried jointly where the offenses and defendants, if more than one, could have been joined in a single information or complaint. The prosecution shall continue as if it were a single information or complaint.
If a complaint is filed in the District Court for a misdemeanor related to any felony for having arisen from the same act or transaction or for having arisen from two (2) or more acts or transactions related to each other, or that constitute a part of a common plan, the defendant or the prosecuting attorney may request the District Court of First Instance [sic] and the latter may issue a warrant so that the decree on the case be referred to the Court of First Instance. The request of the defendant must be filed in the District Court before the beginning of the trial in the Court of First Instance. The proceeding in the Court of First Instance shall be continued having as its grounds the complaint filed in the District Court and the trial shall be tried by a court of law.
History —May 20, 1970, No. 28, p. 58; June 19, 1987, No. 29, p. 91, eff. 60 days after June 19, 1987.