DEFENDANT Crossword Clue

The most common solutions for the crossword clue "DEFENDANT" are ACCUSED with 7 letters, SUSPECT with 7 letters.
We know 7 solutions for: DEFENDANT
Crossword Puzzle Infos
The term 'defendant' is used to refer to a person who is ACCUSED of a crime and is being tried in a court of law. The crossword solutions for this term include 'SUSPECT' (7 letters), 'ACCUSED' (7 letters), 'Sacco' (5 letters), 'Seale' (5 letters), 'Scopes' (6 letters), 'libelee' (7 letters), and 'respondent' (10 letters). Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were two Italian-born anarchists who were ACCUSED of murder and robbery in 1920s America and became known as the Sacco and Vanzetti case. The Scopes trial was a famous 1925 court case in which John T. Scopes was ACCUSED of teaching evolution in a Tennessee public school, which was illegal at the time. Libel is a false statement that is published and damages someone's reputation, and a libelee is the person who is the subject of the libel. A respondent is a person who responds to a legal complaint or petition. All of these terms can be used to refer to a defendant in a court of law.
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