California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Mendoza, H039705 (Cal. App. 2016):
circumstantial evidence that would be of limited weight if standing alone, so long as it tends to "implicate the defendant by relating to an act that is an element of the crime." (People v. McDermott (2002) 28 Cal.4th 946, 986 (McDermott).) The prosecutor is not required to present corroborating evidence establishing every element of the crime, but the corroborating evidence must, "without aid from the accomplice's testimony, tend to connect the defendant with the crime." (Ibid.) We are bound by the jury's decision "unless the corroborating evidence should not have been admitted or does not reasonably tend to connect the defendant with the commission of the crime." (Ibid.)
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