California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Medrano, F075861 (Cal. App. 2019):
"[A]n accomplice's testimony is not corroborated by the circumstance that the testimony is consistent with the victim's description of the crime or physical evidence from the crime scene. Such consistency and knowledge of the details of the crime simply proves the accomplice was at the crime scene, something the accomplice by definition admits. Rather, under section 1111, the corroboration must connect the defendant to the crime independent of the accomplice's testimony." (People v. Romero and Self (2015) 62 Cal.4th 1, 36 (Romero and Self).)
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