COOPER, P.J.
Like most American jurisdictions, California adheres to the "corpus delicti" rule, under which the corpus delicti—essentially, the fact that a crime has been committed—cannot be proved based solely on extrajudicial statements of the defendant. (People v. Alvarez (2002)
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