co-defendant
- noun
- /ˌkoʊ dɪˈfɛndənt/
- Specialized
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co-acusado
- And you would have thought from time to time that you were watching a trial where both Alec Baldwin and Hannah Gutierrez Reed were Co defendants, but we weren't.
Well, then one of his Co defendants was cooperating.
- Well, then one of his Co defendants was cooperating.
- So I said to my, my Co defendant, what do you think of this?
- One of his Co defendants was found dead already in the prison.
- Because if I get found guilty of murder, they all as Co defendants will get found as well, you know.
- I was there for three years being held before trial because I had a Co defendant.
- So this was a system we had, best system in the world until one of my Co defendants, he decided to make himself very busy.
- And I told the lad, the one who got caught red handed, the same lad I said to him when he who got caught red handed one of my Co defendants I'm going to bring.
Examples
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Well, then one of his Co defendants was cooperating.
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Trump and the other multiple Co defendants, what happens here is it's just by the preponderance of the evidence.
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So I said to my, my Co defendant, what do you think of this?
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One of his Co defendants was found dead already in the prison.
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So this was a system we had, best system in the world until one of my Co defendants, he decided to make himself very busy.
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Over the six weeks of his trial, Ponzi managed to convince the jury to find him and his Co defendants innocent of all charges against him.
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I think you can only punish the Co defendant here because there's no proof that Young Thug asked for the perk.
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Co-defendants Jeramiah B. Perkins and Gregory Cherwonik each pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement.
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Co-defendant Gary Lenion McDonald of Statesboro pleaded guilty to the same charges in July, and a federal jury convicted co-conspirator Antonio Lamont Murray of
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The co-defendant sat quietly during the trial, listening intently to the evidence presented against them.
Synonyms
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3.7
A person or organization that someone accuses in a court case
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7.3
A person charged alongside others in the same case
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3.6
A person officially charged with a crime in court
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Co-defendant joins the part co- meaning 'together', as in cooperate, with defendant, a person who must 'defend' themselves in court. So a co-defendant is someone who is accused 'together' with one or more others in the same case.