PIROLLO

v.

UNITED STATES

Citator

Cited By

• Williams v. State, 689 So. 2d 393 (Fla. 3d DCA 1997)
  …nsidered in connection with the other evidence,’ but ‘the corpus de-licti cannot rest upon the confession or admission alone.’ ” Schwab v. State, 636 So. 2d 3, 6 (Fla.Xquoting Cross v. State, 96 Fla. 768, 781, 119 So. 380, 384 (1928)), cert. denied, 513 U.S. 950, 115 S.Ct. 364, 130 L.Ed.2d 317 (1994). Therefore, the state must introduce substantial independent evidence of corpus delicti that tends to show that the charged crimes were committed. Farinas v. State, 569 So. 2d 425, 430 (Fla.1990); Thomas v. St…
• Triplett v. State, 947 So. 2d 702 (Fla. 5th DCA 2007)
  …Burke v. State, 835 So. 2d 286, 287 (Fla. 5th DCA 2002). A collateral crime proven by similar evidence does not need to be absolutely identical to the crime charged in order to be admissible. See Schwab v. State, 636 So. 2d 3 (Fla.), cert. denied, 513 U.S. 950, 115 S.Ct. 364, 130 L.Ed.2d 317 (1994). Moreover, similar fact evidence relevant to prove a material fact other than identity does not need to meet the rigid similarity requirement applied when such evidence is used to prove identity. See Houston v.…
• Brancaccio v. State, 773 So. 2d 582 (Fla. 4th DCA 2000)
  …before we talk?”, we would then be confronting the functional equivalent of Almeida. . We agree that there was substantial evidence of the corpus delicti of the crime to admit the confession. Schwab v. State, 636 So. 2d 3 (Fla. 1994), cert. denied, 513 U.S. 950, 115 S.Ct. 364, 130 L.Ed.2d 317 (1994); State v. Allen, 335 So. 2d 823, 825 (Fla.1976). . See now § 985.207(2), Fla. Stat. (1999) (formerly § 39.037).…