What is the test for establishing a corpus delicti in a criminal case?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Lara, 30 Cal.App.4th 658, 35 Cal.Rptr.2d 886 (Cal. App. 1994):
12 This instruction embodies the corpus delicti rule: "In any criminal prosecution, the corpus delicti must be established by the prosecution independently from the extrajudicial statements, confessions or admissions of the defendant." (People v. Wright (1990) 52 Cal.3d 367, 403-404, 276 Cal.Rptr. 731, 802 P.2d 221.)
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