Wichita ? Two brothers accused of a crime spree that ended with the execution-style killing of four people will stand trial together, Sedgwick County District Judge Paul Clark ruled Tuesday.

Clark overruled motions by defense attorneys for Jonathan and Reginald Carr for separate trials.

Jay Greeno, attorney for Reginald Carr, said the defenses for the two brothers will be antagonistic to each other.

“I believe it is going to go far beyond finger-pointing,” he said.

Ron Evans, the attorney for Jonathan Carr, said that as Jonathan’s advocate he has to get into issues such the brother’s record and violent past.

Evans said the ruling, in effect, puts another prosecutor in the room for Reginald, and that Reginald’s lawyers will do the same to his client.

Dist. Atty. Nola Foulston told the judge that separate trials were not appropriate in this case and that many people accused of committing crimes together are tried together.

She also cited the added expense of a second trial as well as the inconvenience to the 70 witnesses who will be called in the case, which is expected to last a month when it comes to trial in September.

The judge’s decision to conduct a single trial came after public arguments in a pretrial hearing kept open in spite of an effort by defense attorneys to close it to media. Clark ruled that the hearing would be open.

The Wichita Eagle and television stations KWCH and KAKE intervened in the case to argue in favor of keeping the proceedings open.

The Carr brothers are charged with abducting five people from an east Wichita home in December 2000 and later taking them to a field and shooting them. One of the victims survived.