codefendant
noun
variants:
or co-defendant
plural codefendants
or co-defendants
Definition of codefendant
: a defendant in the same lawsuit or criminal prosecution as another defendant or group of defendants : a joint defendant
⦠the defendant argued that it was plain error for the trial court to have permitted the prosecution to treat his co-defendant as hostile ⦠— State v. Saenz
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