(DOWNLOAD) "People V. Alvarez" by California Supreme Court ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free

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Title: People V. Alvarez
Author : California Supreme Court
Release Date : January 23, 2002
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 79 KB

Description

To convict an accused of a criminal offense, the prosecution must prove that (1) a crime actually occurred, and (2) the accused was the perpetrator. Though no statute or constitutional principle requires it, California, like most American jurisdictions, has historically adhered to the rule that the first of these components - the corpus delicti or body of the crime - cannot be proved by exclusive reliance on the defendant's extra-judicial statements.