在布莱克法律词典中,对“corroboration evidence”是这样解释的:“evidence supplementary to that already given and tending ,to strengthen to confirm it . additional evidence of a different character to the same point.”可见,补强证据必须具备a different character,也就是区别于被补强证据的独立的来源,作为补充主要证据证明力的证据必须能够独立的与案件事实相联系,假如以一个来源于被补强证据的证据作为补强证据,那就陷入了自我证明的悖论。
Henry Campbell Black,[I]Black’s Law Dictionary(Fifth Edition)[/I],West Publishing Company,1979,P.311.
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The Corroborating Rule of the Oral Confession
Zhao Xu-guang and Wang Yong
(Renmin University of China School of Law, Beijing 100872; Shanghai Public Security Bureau,Shanghai 200025, China)
Abstract: The corroborating rule of the oral confession is a sort of evidence corroborating rule. When a case will be decided on a verdict mainly tied to oral confession, it will be asked in law that there must be some other evidence to reinforce the probative force of the oral confession. The value of this rule is to insure the truth and prevent exacting a confession by torture. In our Criminal Procedure Law, there are some regulations about corroborating rule, while there are no operation regulations. We should consummate this rule through introducing the nature of s oral confession corroborated and corroborating evidence, the scope and extent of corroboration, and the legal consequences of the wrongly corroboration.