California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Savoy, A132866 (Cal. App. 2013):
corroborates that testimony.' ( 1111.) The corroborating evidence may be circumstantial or slight and entitled to little consideration when standing alone, and it must tend to implicate the defendant by relating to an act that is an element of the crime. The corroborating evidence need not by itself establish every element of the crime, but it must, without aid from the accomplice's testimony, tend to connect the defendant with the crime. [Citation.] The trier of fact's determination on the issue of corroboration is binding on the reviewing court unless the corroborating evidence should not have been admitted or does not reasonably tend to connect the defendant with the commission of the crime. [Citation.]"10 (People v. McDermott (2002) 28 Cal.4th 946, 985-986; see also People v. Sanders (1995) 11 Cal.4th 475, 534-535.)
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