Opinion ID: 1162168
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: inducements extended to witness

Text: (5) Leach has advanced on appeal two utterly meritless arguments against the admissibility of evidence of his admissions as testified to by Hagler. The first of these contentions is that Hagler's cooperation with the authorities was the fruit of improper inducements. It is undisputed that the initiative was Hagler's in first informing the authorities of Leach's admissions. The only unusual treatment thereafter accorded Hagler consisted of a check by the police on the status of a criminal charge other than the one on which he was incarcerated, and special arrangements regarding Hagler's transportation to court and conditions of confinement, which arrangements were reasonable in view of the risks incurred by Hagler in agreeing to testify against a fellow inmate. [18] Counsel for Leach has presented no authority in support of the claim of improper inducement, other than cases emphasizing the need for the corroboration of accomplice testimony and forbidding the granting of immunity to an accomplice on the condition that the accomplice testify favorably to the prosecution. ( People v. Marshall (1969) 273 Cal. App.2d 423, 427 [78 Cal. Rptr. 16]; People v. Green (1951) 102 Cal. App.2d 831 [228 P.2d 867].) No showing has been made that the treatment accorded to Hagler, however special, was conditional on the content of his testimony. And while Hagler's testimony was uncorroborated in the strict sense of there being no corroboration of the accuracy of Hagler's recollection of Leach's admissions, Leach's account of the killing as related by Hagler was in almost complete accord with the other evidence of the crime. Moreover, there was no showing of any material differences between Hagler's testimony at trial and his initial revelations to the authorities of Leach's admissions.