People v. Richmond

Among the matters to be decided in this predatory criminal sexual assault case is the State’s suggestion that we abandon the requirement that the occurrence of a crime cannot be established solely by a defendant’s uncorroborated confession — the corpus delicti rule.

The issue arises from a jury verdict finding Samuel Richmond guilty of two counts of predatory criminal sexual assault of a six-year-old female, R.J. It has impact on one of the counts, where Richmond received a sentence of 60 years. His sentence on the other count, a consecutive term of 30 years, is not affected by our view of the…