Ghulam Nabi Azad, the state's chief minister, and the army ordered separate inquiries.
To avoid forcing a single jury to hear improper evidence, a judge ordered separate juries, which were called "green" and "purple" to quickly identify them.
The couple, "still very much in love", had asked to die together in defiance of a sentence that ordered separate executions.
But who will be tried first is not clear since the judge has already ordered separate trials for two of the defendants - Mr. Stressler and Keith Mondello, 20.
By the time the case reached me, seven years after the men were arrested, the charges against Buckley had been dropped and the Illinois Supreme Court had reversed the original convictions of Hernandez and Cruz and ordered separate retrials.
The chaos on the table is fairly well ordered: separate piles of notes, correspondence, bills, stationery, DVDs, the film I'm working on at the moment and so on.
A judge has ordered separate trials for two men charged in what the police have described as a racially motivated beating of a young black man, Shane Daniels, outside a Westhampton Beach nightclub nearly two years ago, officials said.
Customers had to order separate smart card readers and connect them to their personal computers.
You can have both styles, but that means ordering separate dishes.
Or order separate small plates of Ibérico ham (€9) or the Portuguese classic amêijoas à bulhão pato (clams in white wine and garlic).
