People v. Lara

ILLINOIS OFFICIAL REPORTS Supreme Court People v. Lara,

2012 IL 112370

Caption in Supreme THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellant, v. JASON Court: LARA, Appellee. Docket No. 112370 Filed October 18, 2012 Modified upon denial of rehearing February 7, 2013 Held The State need not present independent evidence corroborating every (Note: This syllabus element of the charged offense before a defendant’s statement may be constitutes no part of used to prove the corpus delicti; and a predatory-criminal-sexual-assault the opinion of the court defendant’s confession to penetration was properly…