Pawloski v. State

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• reasoning that because order of proof is within trial court’s discretion, trial court did not err in allowing State to reopen case-in-chief to establish corpus delicti by independent evidence beyond defendant’s confession
• discussing relevant factors in assessing reliability of reports of criminal activity from \cooperative citizens\
• no error for trial court to allow State to reopen its case-in-chief in order to establish corpus delicti of arson
• \[O]ur supreme court has previously held that eyewitnesses and crime victims are considered presumptively reliable unless circumstances exist which call into question their credibility.\
• no error for the trial court to allow the State to reopen its casein-chief in order to establish the corpus delicti of arson
• test for determining reliability of information varies based on whether the source is an anonymous tipster, a professional informant, or a cooperative citizen

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).