accessory after the fact

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accessory after the fact (plural accessories after the fact)

  1. (law) An individual who assists someone who has committed a crime so as to protect them from legal prosecution.
    • 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter II, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A Millar, , →OCLC, book III:
      […] some of that atrocious wickedness in Jones, […] might perhaps be derived from the encouragement he had received from this fellow, who […] had been what the law calls an accessary after the fact […]

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