co-defendant
Joint trial partner
A co-defendant is someone charged or sued alongside another person in the same legal case.
Criminal trials often have multiple co-defendants accused of participating in the same crime: The co-defendants were tried together for conspiracy.
In civil suits, co-defendants share liability for the same alleged harm.
Formal charge from jury
- arraignmentCharge-reading court session
- prosecutionPursuing legal charges
- pleaFormal request or defense
- testimonySworn statement as evidence
verdict · evidence · counsel · attorney · alibi · subpoena · affidavit · deposition
Joint schemer
- conspiratorOne planning in secret
- accessorySupplementary addition
- collaboratorOne who works jointly
- confederateAllied partner in schemes
partner-in-crime · abettor · cohort · complicit · associate · codefendant
Judicial proceedings chamber
- judgeOne who decides
- juryLegal decision-making body
- bailiffLegal proceeding overseer
- witnessOne who attests
testimony · prosecution · verdict · deliberation · sentencing · objection · rebuttal · appeal
indictment
Formal charge from jury
- arraignmentCharge-reading court session
- prosecutionPursuing legal charges
- pleaFormal request or defense
testimony · verdict · evidence · counsel · attorney · alibi · subpoena · affidavit · deposition · cross-examination
coconspirator
Joint schemer
- conspiratorOne planning in secret
- accessorySupplementary addition
- collaboratorOne who works jointly
confederate · partner-in-crime · abettor · cohort · complicit · associate · codefendant
courtroom
Judicial proceedings chamber
witness · testimony · prosecution · verdict · deliberation · sentencing · objection · rebuttal · appeal · dock
- accomplicesaccomplice, accessory, abettor, collaborator, conspirator
- defendantsaccused, respondent
- court rolesjudge, juror, plaintiff, prosecutor, witness
- court partiesplaintiff, claimant, respondent, appellant, applicant
- lawsuit partiesplaintiff, petitioner, respondent, claimant, co-plaintiff
- litigantslitigant, plaintiff, respondent, petitioner, claimant
co-defendantplaintiff
Civil case initiator
prosecutor · complainant · accuser · co-plaintiff · prosecution
defend, defense, defender, defensive, defendant, defendants, co-conspirator, co-defendants