What is the test for corroborating testimony of a witness in a sexual assault case?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Sims, B242500 (Cal. App. 2013):
First, to the extent that defendant argues that V.S.'s testimony had to be corroborated by other evidence, he misstates the law. As the jury was instructed, "It is not essential to a finding of guilt on a charge of forced oral copulation . . . that the testimony of the witness with whom forced oral copulation is alleged to have been committed be corroborated by other evidence." (CALJIC No. 10.60; People v. Gammage (1992) 2 Cal.4th 693, 701.)
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