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• accessary after the fact

Noun

accessory after the fact ‎(plural accessories after the fact)

1. (law) A person who assists or protects someone wanted by the police in connection with a crime.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Book III, chapter ii

     ...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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