Illinois Supreme Court
Criminal Court
Confessions
(Court opinion modified upon denial of rehearing 2/7/13).Corroboration is sufficient to satisfy corpus delicti rule if evidence, or reasonable inferences based on it, tends to support commission of a crime that is at least closely related to the charged offense. Corroboration of only some of the circumstances related in a defendant's confession which tend to connect the defendant with the crime is sufficient. (FREEMAN, GARMAN, KARMEIER, BURKE, and THEIS, concurring; THOMAS, specially concurring.)