codefendant
3
7.3
- noun
- /ˌkoʊdɪˈfɛndənt/
- Jargon
:
coacusado
- The jury deliberated for hours before coming back with a verdict for the three codefendants in the high-profile case.
- a former codefendant
- codefendants in the case
- two codefendants
Examples
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But the school district will certainly be named as a codefendant.
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Following a lengthy jury trial with five codefendants, Frierson was convicted of eight offenses.
Blog text (16) -
And not the last for the summer; there was a codefendant in the Hollister murder case, and his trial had been severed from Brown's.
Fiction book (1992) -
By the way," he added casually, hoping to blow it by her, "I hope you don't mind sharing top billing, but I've taken on a codefendant named Ben Tucker.
Fiction book (1995) -
He said Osborne's codefendant, former San Jacinto City Councilman James Potts, 69, will go on trial on Oct. 29, "period."
Blog text (29) -
Hall's trial attorneys submitted affidavits stating that even after repeated explanations, Hall could not understand the legal theory that made him eligible for capital murder (Hall's codefendant had killed the victim, so Hall was only death eligible under the law of parties), and that Hall would ask them a question, say that he understood the answer, and then re-ask the same question within a short period of time.
Academic text (2016) -
Each codefendant was represented by a different attorney during the trial proceedings.
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After the charges were read, the judge addressed the codefendants and explained the trial process.
Synonyms
2
3.6
A person officially charged with a crime in court
A person accused in the same court case as another person
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word codefendant comes from co- 'with' and defendant 'a person accused in court who defends themselves', so a codefendant is someone who is charged 'with' you in the same legal case.