State v. Plastow

ZINTER, Justice.

[¶ 1.] The State, by way of -intermediate appeal, • challenges the circuit court’s suppression of Alvin Plastow’s admission that he raped a three-year old girl. The circuit court suppressed the admission in accordance with our cases holding that a conviction cannot stand on an admission alone: the admission must be corroborated with independent evidence establishing the corpus delicti of the offense. 1 Many state and federal courts have adopted a more flexible rule. Instead of requiring evidence of the corpus delicti, those courts allow evidence of the admission’s…