You are a police officer responding to a report of a person injured by the side of the road. You find a young woman with injuries consistent with being hit by a car. Do you have the necessary elements for a corpus dilecti of a crime?
A) Yes, because there is no car around. So it is a hit and run.
B) No, because she is harmed, but you do not know for certain the harm was caused by a criminal act.
C) No. Until she tells you she was hit by a car, you don't know for certain that she was.
D) No, because you don't yet know that the driver of the car committed a crime or whether this was an accident.
E) B, C, and D.
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