State v. Reiswig

Citations

• 2024 ND 153

Syllabus

This Court employs a trustworthiness approach when analyzing whether a confession is sufficiently corroborated. Under this approach, not every statement made in a confession must be independently verified instead, we look to a statement made in its entirety and the facts and circumstances in which it was made to determine if it is reliable and trustworthy. A person of reasonable caution could conclude the statement \we did have sex\ means sexual intercourse meeting the statutory definition of a sexual act under N.D.C.C. § 12.1-20-02(4).