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Defendants must be present at every stage of the proceedings against them. (There is an exception for very minor cases such as traffic offenses in jurisdictions which treat them as crimes.) If more than one person is accused, the people may be referred as "co-defendant" or "co-conspirator" in British and common law courts.
A crossclaim is a claim asserted between codefendants or coplaintiffs in a case and that relates to the subject of the original claim or counterclaim according to Black's Law Dictionary. A crossclaim is filed against someone who is a co-defendant or co-plaintiff to the party who originates the crossclaim.
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Courts use various terms to identify the role of a particular party in civil litigation, usually identifying the party that brings a lawsuit as the plaintiff, or, in older American cases, the party of the first part; and the party against whom the case was brought as the defendant, or, in older American cases, the party of the second part.
Donald Trump's former co-defendants are asking the judge who tossed his classified documents case to issue an emergency order blocking the public release of special counsel Jack Smith's final ...
The legal team for a co-defendant in the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump alleged in a filing Friday that the personal relationship between Fulton County ...
Street (1985), in which a co-defendant's confession was properly admitted against the defendant—not for the hearsay purpose of directly proving that both men jointly committed a robbery and murder—but for the nonhearsay purpose of rebutting the defendant's claim that his own confession was elicited through the sheriff's coercive tactic of ...
The lawyer who first alleged a personal relationship Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and special prosecutor Nathan Wade walked Georgia lawmakers through how she came to find out about ...