the accused

noun

: the person(s) charged with a crime

The accused was found not guilty.

All of he accused were found not guilty.

Examples of the accused in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The principal duty of the judge in a criminal case is to protect the accused from abuse by the state. —

Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 26 May 2024 Plea information for the accused was not available in online court records. —

Samira Asma-Sadeque, Peoplemag, 23 May 2024 The case dragged on to the Court of Appeal, where all 14 of the accused were acquitted. —

Ogar Monday, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 May 2024 Some of the accused were among the inmates who escaped on March 2 when the gangs broke into the country’s two main prisons. —

Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 31 Mar. 2024 Recent Cases Two recent cases resulted in years-long prison sentences for the accused. —

Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024 Each episode follows a loose Law & Order template, chronicling the crime and subsequent investigation — lasting anywhere from 10 days to 21 years — before shifting to the prosecution of the accused. —

Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 18 Mar. 2024 Lindsey, at 16, along with three classmates, started a lawsuit against the US Department of Education due to numerous changes to Title IX that limited protections of those reporting and protected the accused. —

Kate T. Parker, CNN, 16 Mar. 2024 Consider their latest cause célèbre, the tragic recent death of a young woman, Laken Riley, in which the accused is an undocumented migrant. —

Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2024

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