How have courts treated corroborative evidence in a murder trial?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Tejan, D065267 (Cal. App. 2014):
be circumstantial, of little weight by itself, and related merely to one part of the accomplice's testimony." (Id. at p. 186, italics added; see also People v. Abilez (2007) 41 Cal.4th 472, 505 [such corroborative evidence may be slight or entirely circumstantial and entitled to little consideration when standing alone, and need not by itself establish every element of the crime].)
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