Notwithstanding Section 190.4 or any other provision of law, the corpus delicti of a felony-based special circumstance enumerated in paragraph (17) of subdivision (a) of Section 190.2 need not be proved independently of a defendant’s extrajudicial statement.
Cal. Penal Code § 190.41
Homicide
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Hovey v. Ayers (2006)
Most recently applied in Hovey v. Ayers (August 2006)
Added June 5, 1990, by initiative Proposition 115, Sec. 11.
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