Legal Opinion
People v. Laursen
California Supreme Court
Decided October 20, 1972No. Crim. 16246PublishedCited by 129 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
WRIGHT, C. J.
Defendant Raymond Ross Laursen appeals from a judgment entered on jury verdicts convicting him of armed robbery (Pen. Code, § § 211,211 a) and kidnaping for the purpose of robbery (Pen. Code, § 209 ). The penalty for kidnaping was fixed at life imprisonment with possibility of parole. The principal issue presented is whether a kidnaping committed while in the act of escaping from the site of a robbery falls within the meaning of “kidnaping for the purpose of robbery” as proscribed by section 209. For reasons which will appear we conclude that it does.
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