P. v. Goss CA4/1
Anthony B. Goss appeals the judgment on his conviction by jury of attempted residential burglary. (Pen. Code , §§ 664, 459, 460, subd. (a); all further statutory references are to this code unless noted.) Goss received a total term of 14 years in prison.
On appeal, Goss contends that insufficient evidence supports the conviction, because it was based on accomplice testimony but without independent corroborative evidence connecting him to the crime. (§ 1111 [evidence "tend[ing] to connect the defendant with the commission of the offense" required where accomplice testimony presented; People v. Romero and Self (2015) 62 Cal.4th 1, 32 (Romero) ["for the jury to rely on an accomplice's testimony about the circumstances of an offense, it must find evidence that ' "without aid from the accomplice's testimony, tend[s] to connect the defendant with the crime." ' "]; id. at p. 37.)
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