State v. Plastow
Annotate this CaseDefendant was charged with two counts of first-degree rape and two counts of possession of child pornography. Defendant moved to suppress his admissions that he raped a three-year-old girl, arguing that the State could not present independent corroborating evidence showing the corpus delicti of a rape.The circuit court suppressed Defendant’s admissions, reasoning that there was insufficient independent evidence corroborating Defendant’s admissions. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding (1) as an alternative method of corroborating admissions alongside requiring evidence of the corpus delicti, this Court now allows evidence of the admission’s trustworthiness to corroborate the admission and establish guilt; but (2) the application of the trustworthiness rule in this case would violate Defendant’s due process right to fair warning. Remanded.
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