"co-defendant" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From co- + defendant.",
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          "ref": "2012 August 21, Ed Pilkington, “Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "One of Clemons's three co-defendants has already been executed, and Clemons himself came within 12 days of being put to death in 2009.",
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  "word": "co-defendant"
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  "etymology_text": "From co- + defendant.",
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