Rule 8 - Joinder of Offenses and of Respondents(a) Joinder of offenses. Two or more offenses may be charged in the same petition in a separate count for each offense if the offenses charged, whether they would be felonies or misdemeanors or both if committed by adults, are of the same or similar character or are based on the same act or transaction or on 2 or more acts or transactions connected together or constituting parts of a common scheme or plan.(b) Joinder of respondents. Two or more respondents may be charged in substantially similar individual petitions if they are alleged to have participated in the same act or transaction or in the same series of acts or transactions constituting an offense or offenses. Such respondents may be charged in one or more counts and all of the respondents need not be charged in each count. Substantially similar petitions shall be tried together unless severed under SCR-Juvenile 14.