Clem v. State

OPINION

Appellants Joseph Clem, Gerald Bridgewater, Kenneth Bridge-water, James Player and Charles Cook were convicted of first degree kidnapping, extortion and mayhem for burning Katherine Sexton with a red-hot table fork and heated electric iron. Appellants raise a number of challenges to their convictions. We conclude that the convictions were properly entered and therefore affirm.

Katherine Sexton lived in Las Vegas with her five-year-old daughter, Erica, and her cousin, appellant Joseph Clem. Clem’s friends from Los Angeles, appellants Gerald and Kenneth Bridge-water, Player and Cook, had…