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Doe v. State

Citations

  • 613 P.2d 418
  • 94 N.M. 548

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  • holding that the child's admission to shoplifting was insufficient because, outside of that admission, there was no evidence to establish that the crime of shoplifting had occurred
  • holding that although the defendant confessed twice to stealing alcohol, there was no corroborating evidence to support the allegation that the defendant actually stole the alcohol
  • holding that a defendant’s confession to stealing alcohol from a grocery store was not corroborated where the independent evidence did not actually connect the defendant to the alcohol
  • holding that the child’s admission to shoplifting was insufficient because, outside of that admission, there was no evidence to establish that the crime of shoplifting had occurred
  • “The corpus delicti of a crime requires proof that the crime was committed.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Sosa, Federici, Felter, Easley, Payne

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