MILWAUKEE -- A jailed Milwaukee alderman will be tried by two separate juries beginning Dec. 10.

A judge made the ruling in a Milwaukee County courtroom Tuesday.

Michael McGee Jr. is the 6th District alderman charged with conspiring to have a man beaten up and election fraud. McGee will be tried with co-defendants Little Al Stewart and Dimitrius Jackson on the beating-conspiracy charges and tried alone on vote-buying allegations.

The juries will hear testimony common to both cases, but one jury will leave the room when testimony shifts to the other case.

Two other defendants on the election charges, Garrett Huff and Khadijah Anwar, will go on trial March 3.

After the hearing, the Michael McGee Legal Defense Committee for Justice announced it will register a formal complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice, state and local officials asking for a full scale investigation into a number of issues surrounding McGee's case.

At a news conference, the group called McGee a political prisoner. They outlined a list of concerns including the use of government wiretaps on McGee and what it calls a government conspiracy to trap the alderman on bogus events.

McGee faces both federal and state charges. He pleaded not guilty in both courts. The federal charges include extortion and bribery.