What is the test for corroboration in a criminal case?

In Jones, supra, 30 Cal.4th 1084, the court explained that "[i]t does not matter, for this purpose, that [the corroborating witnesses] may have been accomplices whose testimony would require corroboration to support a conviction. [Citation.] Neither does it matter that all five witnesses could be impeached by proof of bias or prior inconsistent statements. The cumulative corroborative effect of the testimony of defendant's admissions is sufficient to give independent reliability to the eyewitness identifications." (Id. at p. 1112; see also People v. Placensia (1985) 168 Cal.App.3d 546, 555 [eyewitness testimony corroborated by two of the defendant's fellow gang members].) Here, the fact

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