Baker v. Commonwealth

LAMBERT, Justice.

Appellant was convicted of kidnapping ten-year-old Donald Scott Baker and of reckless homicide in connection with his death. In this matter of right appeal, appellant seeks reversal of the reckless homicide conviction on grounds that double jeopardy principles prevent her conviction of both crimes. In essence, she claims that the elements of the charges, as set forth in the court’s instructions,1 were “so inexorably interwoven” that *373the offense of kidnapping was consumed by the reckless homicide conviction.

Appellant’s convictions arose out of the brutal murder of Donald Scott…