Difference between Responder and Respondent

What is the difference between Responder and Respondent?

Responder as a noun is a person that responds on emergency situation. while Respondent as a noun is the person who answers for the defendant in a case before a court. in some legal systems, when one appeals a criminal case, one names the original court as defendant, but the state is the respondent.

We hope you now know whether to use Responder or Respondent in your sentence.