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corpus1 CONSTRUCTCorpus delictiGLEICHER · CRIME OCCURRED

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Law

the principle that the state must prove a crime actually happened before anyone can be convicted of it.

In criminal law corpus delicti means the body of the crime: the principle that the state must first prove a crime actually happened before anyone can be convicted of it. For a homicide, for example, prosecutors must establish that a death occurred and that it resulted from a criminal act, not merely that a confession exists. Gleicher's 2013 encyclopedia entry Corpus Delicti sets out the rule and its long use as a guard against convictions built on confession alone. The related phrase habeas corpus, literally you shall have the body, is a separate writ that requires a detained person to be brought before a court. In both the Latin corpus points to a body, but here the body is the established fact of a crime, not a collection of texts, a brain structure, or an author's work.[1]

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The proven fact that a crime took place
Recovery means
Not applicable
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Established in court by evidence independent of a confession, showing the injury or loss and a criminal cause

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References

  1. Gleicher, L. (2013). Corpus delicti. In The encyclopedia of criminology and criminal justice (pp. 1–4). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118517383.wbeccj503

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