corpus delicti rule

corpus delicti rule
n. The legal principle that the prosecution cannot prove that a crime has been committed from the defendant's confession alone, but that the prosecution must prove that corroborating evidence exists that the crime that the defendant has confessed to did actually occur.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary. . 2000.

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