CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
...Hearsay Exceptions re Statements
......Admissions (Crim.)
.........In-custody Informants
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Corroboration of in-custody informant testimony.

Trial court committed harmless error in not instructing sua sponte that the testimony of jailhouse informant [that D told him he killed his own mother] had to be corroborated.

D's confession to jailhouse informant, next to whose cell he was placed on a ruse, was not coerced and was distinguishable from the confession held to be involuntary in Fulminante.

PC 1111.5, prohibiting conviction based on uncorroborated testimony of an in-custody informant, did not apply retroactively to D sentenced 3 mos. before section's effective date.