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  • noun law One of two or more people accused of the same offence

Etymologies

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co- +‎ accused

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Examples

  • Van der Schyff said he found it strange that the three had not handed themselves over to the police even after their coaccused were granted bail by another court.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • Falati and Cebekhulu were coaccused in the trial in which Mandela was convicted and sentenced in May 1991 to five years in jail on four counts of kidnap and one year as an accessory to assault on four youths at her Soweto home.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • The Hague four days after the dismissal of his objection on charges of war crimes and with coaccused Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • The lower court, however, had acquitted two other coaccused -- Ved Prakash Sharma and Ved alias Kalu -- for want of evidence.

    Analysis 2010

  • The lower court, however, had acquitted two other coaccused -- Ved Prakash Sharma and Ved alias Kalu -- for want of evidence.

    Analysis 2010

  • Paul McBride, for Maguire, said: "His coaccused David Hughes is not a man to be trifled with.

    The Daily Record - Home 2009

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