State v. Davis

SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.

The state appeals from an order granting the defendant’s “(c)(4)” motion to dismiss a count of an information charging kidnapping under section 787.01(l)(a)21, Florida Statutes (1993), by confining the five-year-old victim to facilitate the commission of a robbery.2 We reverse because, contrary to the decision below, the showing that the defendant took the child from an at least semi-public waiting room to a private examining room of a doctor’s office, where she took jewelry from the child, may be found to have constituted an imprisonment (by definition, against the will…