At trial the prosecution's main witness was Robert Napoleoni, an accomplice who testified in exchange for a promised sentence of time served and probation on this robbery and one other. An accomplice's testimony must be corroborated by "evidence tending to connect the defendant with the commission of such offense" (CPL 60.22 [1]), independent of the testimony of the accomplice, and from an independent source establishing a material fact implicating defendant. (People v...
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