What is the burden of establishing a corpus delicti of oral copulation?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Jones, 17 Cal.4th 279, 70 Cal.Rptr.2d 793, 949 P.2d 890 (Cal. 1998):
In this case, however, the prosecution met its burden. "[M]any other circumstances of deep inculpatory import" (The King v. Horry, supra, N.Z.L.R. [1952] at p. 124) beyond defendant's extrajudicial statements were available to support the trial court's conclusion that the prosecution had established the corpus delicti of oral copulation.
[17 Cal.4th 321]
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