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Accomplice Testimony Corroboration Insufficient Under Law Read to Jury

Even though the evidence of corroboration of accomplice testimony was sufficient under People v Reome, 15 NY3d 188 [2010], the Court of Appeals held it was not sufficient under the stricter criteria of People v Hudson, 51 NY2d 233 [1980] which Reome overruled. Because the jury was read the Hudson criteria, that criteria applied and the evidence of corroboration was not sufficient to support conviction:

Under the Hudson standard, the corroborating evidence was insufficient.  The evidence that was “independent” of the accomplice testimony in the Hudson sense proved, at most, that defendant had driven a minivan that was the same color as a car that was used to commit some of the crimes charged.  This by itself did not tend “to connect the defendant with the commission” of the crimes (CPL 60.22 [1]).  People v Rodriguez, 169, CtApp 10-17-13

 

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