As explained in the 1964 Connecticut Supreme Court case of State v. Tillman, "[h]istorically, the corpus delicti rule prohibited a defendant from being convicted of a crime on the basis of his extrajudicial confession unless the confession was corroborated by some evidence of the corpus delicti, or the body of the crime?."
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State v. Heredia
Connecticut Appellate Court
December 3, 2012
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