State v. Gordon

INMAN, Judge.

*403 Bobby Lee Gordon, Jr. ("Defendant") appeals from a judgment after a jury found him guilty of attempted first-degree rape, first-degree *404 kidnapping, and first-degree sexual offense. On appeal, Defendant argues that the trial court erred by failing to dismiss the charge of first-degree kidnapping based upon insufficient evidence that the victim was not released in a safe place, failing to give the jury a curative instruction after sustaining defense counsel's objection to the prosecutor's allegedly improper statement during closing argument, and failing to intervene ex mero motu…