34 Md. App. 108 - Jeandell v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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8 state decisions

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1. “"Not much in the way of evidence corroborative of the accomplice’s testimony has been required by our cases. We have, however, consistently held the view that while the corroborative evidence need not be sufficient in itself to convict, it must relate to material facts tending either (1) to identify the accused with the perpetrators of the crime or (2) to show the participation of the accused in the crime itself.... If with some degree of cogency the corroborative evidence tends to establish either of these matters, the trier of fact may credit the accomplice’s testimony even with respect to matters as to which no corroboration was adduced.... That corroboration need not extend to every detail and indeed may even be circumstantial is also settled by our cases.” (citations omitted).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 49 Md. App. 696 - Proctor v. State

2. “With respect to corroborative evidence tending “to identify the defendant with the perpetrators of the crime, ‘[i]t would be sufficient by way of corroboration for the state to show, by non-accomplice evidence, that the appellant was in the company of the perpetrators of the crime in the general vicinity of the crime scene and at about the time when the crime occurred.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 90 Md. App. 549 - Wiggins v. State