Shaw v. State

Andrews, Judge.

While Shaw held the store manager’s family at gunpoint in their residence and robbed them, his accomplice forced the manager to return to the store to open the safe. The manager was able to summon police to the store and foil the attempted armed robbery. When police arrived at the manager’s residence, Shaw tried to escape by abducting family members as hostages. Shaw was convicted by a jury of kidnapping, kidnapping with bodily injury, armed robbery, criminal attempt to commit armed robbery, burglary, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime.

1. Shaw contends…