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State v. Colorado

Citations

  • 890 So. 2d 468
  • 2004 WL 3008908

How courts have described this case

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  • distinguishing Allen and Burks because there was no evidence other than the confession establishing Colorado as the driver of the vehicle in which one person was killed
  • no independent proof that defendant was driver of vehicle to support admission of inculpatory statement in vehicular homicide prosecution
  • corpus delicti not shown where, among other things, no witnesses could identify the defendant as having driven the vehicle at any time and the state did not argue that it could meet its burden of proof based on the bodies’ locations
  • corpus delicti not shown where, among other things, no witnesses could identify the defendant as having driven the vehicle at any time and the state did not argue that it could meet its burden of proof based on the bodies’ locations

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Judges: Northcutt

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