Byrd was tried as the principal offender, which under Ohio law means "the actual killer".

The jurors also found him culpable as a principal offender, out for "private financial gain."

Otherwise the offenders, at least the principal offenders, are to be taken to Germany.

A count charging a single principal offender with murder will now be in the following form:

The principal offenders were never tried or punished.

The principal offender is a feature in the bill called "Loser Pays."

Although there were seven other men and women in their group, it was these three principal offenders that committed repeated blackmail and rape.

Marty Jennings had been the principal offender.

An accessory was to receive the same penalty as the principal offender, regardless of whether the accessory had committed the offence before.

In Canada, a person who aids or abets in the commission of a crime is treated the same as a principal offender under the criminal law.

The Spycatcher principal outflanks this by holding that the 'third party' commits a contempt as a principal offender in its own right.

His actions in the cross-burning case, they said, were motivated by a sense that prosecutors had mishandled the case and let the principal offender off lightly.

Whereas incitement can only be committed when the defendant incites the principal offender, the crime of "encouraging or assisting" includes helping an accessory.

Subject to Cabinet's advice, the President is empowered to pardon offenders, or accomplices who provide information leading to the conviction of principal offenders in crimes.

But Finch proceeded against the principal offenders, from whom it was hoped that substantial sums could be extracted, 'by way of a Speciall Indictment'.

A woman could not commit rape as a principal offender, by the nature of the offence, but she could commit rape as an accomplice.

As all evidence pointed towards Forrest being the principal offender in the case and that he had absconded, the court decreed that he should be outlawed.

To show that an accused aided or abetted in the commission of a crime, the Crown does not need to prove the guilt of a specific principal offender.

In reporting on this conflict, Human Rights Watch - frequently joined by the UN - faulted Israel as the principal offender."

The statement said the trade embargo would remain until all human rights abuses in Bosnia and Herzegovina ceased, naming the Bosnian Serbs as "the principal offenders."

A mens rea is required even when it is not required for the principal offender (for example, when the principal commits a strict liability offence).

At common law a boy under the age of fourteen years could not commit rape as a principal offender as he was irrebutably presumed to be incapable of sexual intercourse.

It was decided to charge the five "principal offenders" - Allen, Larkin, Gould (O'Brien), Shore (Condon), and Maguire - under one indictment.

"The noise transcends traffic," said Beth Hassrick, administrative director of Exit Art, a nonprofit gallery above a clothing store, OMG, that she labels a principal offender.

The government Fair Trade Commission named four chaebol - the Samsung, SK, LG and Hyundai Automotive groups - as principal offenders.