crown witness

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crown witness (plural crown witnesses)

  1. (UK law) A person implicated in a criminal case who turn against their accomplices by serving as a witness for the state and who may enter into a witness protection program afterwards.

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cooperating witnesses, witness collaborator, justice collaborator, state witness

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