State v. Jones

State of Maryland v. Hassan Emmanuel Jones, No. 52, September Term, 2018 CRIMINAL PROCEDURE — SUFFICIENCY OF THE EVIDENCE — ACCOMPLICE CORROBORATION RULE — The accomplice corroboration rule, as it was structured at the time of trial, required evidence independent of accomplice testimony to implicate a defendant in a crime or identify the defendant with the perpetrators of the crime at or near the time it was committed. That evidence was not presented here, and thus the Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment of the Court of Special Appeals overturning the conviction of Respondent as being…