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A key element of the corpus delicti of a crime is the identity of the person who committed it. True or False

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False.

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Corpus delicti is a Latin term used in criminal law and means the object of the crime. It concerns objects in respect of which the offense was committed; which are the object of the crime and which are thus, as it were, the direct object of that crime; for example, the car that was stealed by the thief, or the person that was murdered by a killer. It is, therefore, the thing which constitutes the purpose of the crime commited by a person.

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