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I'm Emily Campano, and this is the Fox True Crime podcast.

Thank you. podcast. suspected Long Island serial killer Rex Heuerman appeared back in court on Tuesday. It was there that Judge Timothy Mazze ruled that Heuerman will undergo one single trial

for all seven murder charges with which he's charged.

Hewerman's attorneys had previously attempted to split the

case into multiple trials. Furthermore, Judge Mazzie also permitted the use of DNA evidence in the case.

This case will mark the first time that evidence collected through a new technology, genome sequencing,

will be used in a New York court. Hewerman was arrested in

23 and has pleaded not guilty to seven murders of which he's been accused. A trial date has

yet to be set. Joining me now is an expert on this case, retired NYPD inspector, attorney,

Fox News contributor, and my friend Paul Morrow.

Paul, this is a pretty significant ruling both of them.

So now just one trial, and then the use of genome sequencing is allowed.

Let's take it one step at a time.

So how does the one single trial affect the defense's case here?

So what the defense wanted was to sever these cases and something that you generally want as the

defense. And there's a couple of sort of less lofty reasons for that. And then there are some

that are strategic. The less lofty reasons, well, if you're doing seven trials, you are going

to be paid for the length of that. You're going to have seven separate trials if you're

an appointed defense. And look, they get paid doing this stuff. I mean, so you're going to get,

you know, I'm not saying that that's what the lawyers are doing here, but in a general sense,

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