Corpus Delicti Rule • Admission of Extrajudicial Statements • Abuse of Discretion
Commonwealth v. Bullock, PICS Case No. 17-1401(Pa. Super. Aug. 31, 2017) Dubow, J. (30 pages).
The trial court did not abuse its discretion in admitting defendant’s extrajudicial statements to police and a nurse caring for an abused elder where the Commonwealth had already proffered sufficient evidence of the corpus delicti, or body of the crimes charged, to entitle the case to go to the trier of fact. The appellate court affirmed defendant’s judgment of sentence.
