California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Miramontes, H036887 (Cal. App. 2014):
Penal Code section 1111 states that a "conviction can not be had upon the testimony of an accomplice unless it be corroborated by such other evidence as shall tend to connect the defendant with the commission of the offense." (Pen. Code, 1111, italics added.) Miramontes correctly points out that coconspirators are accomplices for purposes of Penal Code section 1111. (See People v. Stankewitz (1990) 51 Cal.3d 72, 90.) Miramontes fails, however, to articulate how the coconspirator hearsay statements in the jail calls constituted testimony within the meaning of Penal Code section 1111.
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