{"id":287,"date":"2016-09-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baronedefensefirm.lawblogger.net\/blog\/drunk-driving-operation-can-be-proved-by-drivers-admission-to-police\/"},"modified":"2022-10-04T13:29:49","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T17:29:49","slug":"drunk-driving-operation-can-be-proved-by-drivers-admission-to-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/drunk-driving-operation-can-be-proved-by-drivers-admission-to-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Drunk Driving Operation Can be Proven by Driver\u2019s Admission to Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Michigan Court of Appeals has recently held that a driver\u2019s admission to drinking too much and trying to drive from the bar were admissible against her to establish the element of operation.<\/p>\n<p>As prosecutors often say in their opening\/closing arguments, a crime is made up of parts called elements. In order to prove a case, a prosecutor must be able to prove each element of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt. In a drunk driving case, one of those necessary elements is operation. Usually, an element can\u2019t be proved just by the defendant\u2019s admission. This is called the \u201ccorpus delicti rule.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to David Moritz, an assistant professor at Wayne State University Law School: the common law corpus delicti rule prohibits the introduction of an extrajudicial confession in a criminal case unless the prosecution introduces independent evidence of the \u201ccorpus delicti.\u201d That is, the prosecution must introduce some evidence independent of the confession to establish that the crime described in the confession actually occurred.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/drunk-driving-operation-can-be-proved-by-drivers-admission-to-police\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Drunk Driving Operation Can be Proven by Driver\u2019s Admission to Police\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Michigan Court of Appeals has recently held that a driver\u2019s admission to drinking too much and trying to drive from the bar were admissible against her to establish the element of operation. As prosecutors often say in their opening\/closing arguments, a crime is made up of parts called elements. 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