Curtis King's attorneys had filed a motion asking District Judge Trudy White to sever the second-degree murder, aggravated kidnapping and drug counts against him, which would have resulted in separate trials on each of the three counts.
White denied the request to sever the charges, saying an East Baton Rouge Parish grand jury that indicted King in September 2015 obviously believed the counts stemmed from "one continuous activity."
King is scheduled to stand trial April 2 on the murder, kidnapping and drug charges stemming from the 2015 incidents.