Is evidence of extrajudicial admissions to the police admissible?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Holford, 41 Cal.Rptr. 770 (Cal. App. 1964):
The corpus delicti having been established, evidence of appellant's extrajudicial admissions to the police was admissible. (People v. Roche, supra, 49 Cal.App.2d 459, 461-462, 121 P.2d 865; People v. Bollinger, 196 Cal. 191, 199-200, 237 P. 25.)
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