What is the test for proving the corpus delicti?

"The corpus delicti may be proved by direct or circumstantial evidence as well as by other acts evidence. [Citation.]" (People v. Huynh (2012) 212 Cal.App.4th 285, 301.) "[D]irect evidence, unlike circumstantial evidence, does not generate conflicting inferences. '"Circumstantial evidence involves a two-step processfirst, the parties present evidence and, second, the jury decides which reasonable inference or inferences, if any, to draw from the evidencebut direct evidence stands on its own. So as to direct

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