fugitive

fugitive.

1. A person who flees or escapes; a refugee.

2. A criminal suspect or a witness in a criminal case who flees, evades, or escapes arrest, prosecution, imprisonment, service of process, or the giving of testimony, esp. by fleeing the jurisdiction or by hiding. See 18 USCA § 1073. — Also termed (in sense 2) fugitive from justice.

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