California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Lopez-Frausto, D069241 (Cal. App. 2018):
"[C]orroboration is not sufficient if it merely shows the commission of the offense or the circumstances thereof." (People v. Samaniego (2009) 172 Cal.App.4th 1148, 1176.) The requisite corroboration "must, without aid from the accomplice's testimony, connect the defendant to the charged offense, but may be circumstantial, slight and entitled to little consideration when standing alone. [Citations.] Corroborating evidence need not be sufficient to establish the defendant's guilt or corroborate the accomplice to every fact to which the accomplice testified. [Citations.] It must raise more than a suspicion or conjecture of guilt, and is sufficient if it connects the defendant with the crime in such a way as to reasonably satisfy the trier of fact as to the truthfulness of the accomplice." (Id. at pp. 1177-1178.)
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