Opper v. United States

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• holding that post-arrest admissions and confessions require corroboration of the essential facts admitted by a defendant
• holding that “accused’s admissions of essential facts or elements of the crime, subsequent to the crime, are of the same character as confessions and that corroboration should be required”
• holding that corroborating evidence is adequate if it “supports the essential facts admitted sufficiently to justify a jury inference of their truth”
• holding that “accused’s admissions of essential facts or elements of the crime, subsequent to the crime, are of the same character as confessions and that corroboration should be required”
• holding that, under the second prong of the corroboration requirement, the government “must introduce independent evidence tending to establish the trustworthiness of the admission[]”
• holding that corroborative evidence must \support[ ] the essential facts admitted sufficiently to justify a jury inference of their truth\

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