Legal Opinion
People v. Adams
Michigan Court of Appeals
Decided June 24, 1971No. Docket 3940PublishedCited by 64 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLevin, J.
The defendant, Otis L. Adams, appeals his conviction of kidnapping.
Kidnapping is now a statutory, not a common-law crime. The relevant portion of our statute makes it unlawful to “wilfully, maliciously and without lawful authority * * * forcibly or secretly confine *550or imprison any other person within this state against his will”.1 2But every forcible confinement is not the capital offense of kidnapping.
Our kidnapping statute, like most, is so all-encompassing in its literal breadth that unless its operative effect is confined by objective standards it would be void for overbreadth.2
Where a…
2Cases cited65 opinions
- Yick Wo v. HopkinsSupreme Court of the United States · 1886
- Morissette v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1952
- Haguer v. Committee for Industrial OrganizationSupreme Court of the United States · 1939
- Screws v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1945
- Bouie v. City of ColumbiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
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3Cited by64 opinions
- State v. AnthonyTennessee Supreme Court · 1991
- People v. AdamsMichigan Supreme Court · 1973
- State v. JohnsonWashington Supreme Court · 1979
- State v. Rattana Keo PhuongCourt of Appeals of Washington · 2013
- People v. JaffrayMichigan Supreme Court · 1994
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