Supreme Court of Colorado· 1/14/2013

People v. LaRosa

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293 P.3d 567
2013 CO 2

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abandoning the corpus delicti rule in favor of the trustworthiness standard
abandoning corpus delicti rule after concluding that it was “too rigid in its approach, too narrow in its application, and too capable of working injustice in cases where, as here, evidence of the corpus delicti is not only non-existent but impossible to uncover”
“[T]he corroboration requirement is not an elemental test.... [I]t does not require the court to review the evidence as it relates to the specific elements of the crime.”

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Judges: Bender, Coats, Eid

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