161 Cal. App. 4th 98 - People v. Miranda’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
April 2017
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Cunningham v. California · 6 Cal. 3d 441 - People v. Beagle · People v. Carpenter · 53 Cal. 3d 334 - People v. Jennings
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““ ‘Wigmore explains [the rule] this way: every crime “reveals three component parts, first the occurrence of the specific kind of injury or loss (as in homicide, a person deceased; in arson, a house burnt, in larceny, property missing); secondly, somebody’s criminality (in contrast, e.g., to accident) as the source of the loss,—these two together involving the commission of a crime by somebody, and thirdly, the accused’s identity as the doer of this crime.” By the great weight of authority, the first two without the third constitute the corpus delicti.' [Citation.] “California distinguishes between the evidentiary and the proof sides of the corpus delicti rule since ‘[it] is not a requirement of federal law, and it has no basis in California statutory law.’ [Citation.] The evidentiary side of the rule, that ‘restricts] the admissibility in evidence of otherwise relevant and admissible extrajudicial statements of the accused,’ has been abrogated by article I, section 28, subdivision (d) of the California Constitution (the ‘truth-in-evidence’ law [Proposition 8]). [Citation.] However, ‘section 28(d) did not eliminate the independent-proof rule . . . that. . . prohibits conviction where the only evidence that the crime was committed is the defendant’s own statements outside of court.’ [Citation.] “Thus, the rule in California: ‘In every criminal trial, the prosecution must prove the corpus delicti, or the body of the crime itself—i.e., the fact of injury, loss, or harm, and the ”
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