Commonwealth v. Kysor

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• prior to finding victim’s body, circumstantial evidence was insufficient for probable cause for arrest or conviction of homicide (precluding defendant’s double jeopardy claim
• prosecutor need not initiate murder charges merely to satisfy joinder rule where additional investigation is required on homicide aspect of case
• \[I]t is not necessary to produce the body to acquire a homicide conviction. Circumstantial evidence may be so convincing that it alone can satisfy the Commonwealth’s burden to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).