Legal Opinion
Hurd v. State
Court of Appeals of Alaska
Decided April 13, 2001No. A-7571PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MANNHEIMER, Judge.
In this appeal, we are asked to clarify the relationship between the crimes of coercion and kidnapping. The State alleges that Leonard P. Hurd committed both of these crimes. According to the State's evidence, Hurd invited another man to his house and then held him captive, refusing to let him leave until he agreed to transfer thousands of dollars of property to Hurd. The question is whether Hurd's restraint of the other man will support a separate conviction for kidnapping or whether, instead, this restraint should be deemed "incidental" to the crime of coercion. We…
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- Government of the Virgin Islands v. Warren P. Berry. Appeal of Warren Berry. Appeal of Guillermo BrignoniCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1979
- Marks v. StateAlaska Supreme Court · 1972
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