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How about confessing to a crime that doesn’t exist?
by jagged-chisel 6y ago
How about confessing to a crime that doesn’t exist?
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- beervirus 6y agoYou're thinking of corpus delicti, I assume? Lots of states have loosened that rule to something that's pretty easy to satisfy--basically that the prosecution just needs to show some evidence that the confession is trustworthy. So independent evidence proving that the crime exists is not always required anymore.