State v. Salamon

ZARELLA, J.,

with whom VERTEFEUILLE and SULLIVAN, Js., join, concurring in part and dissenting in part. I disagree with the new inteipretation of our kidnapping statutes that the majority announces in part I of its opinion and with its conclusion in part III that unlawful restraint is a specific intent crime.1 My disagreement with the majority is premised on what I believe to be serious flaws in its construction of the plain language of the statutory scheme, its treatment of the principle of stare decisis, and its usurpation of *577the roles of both the legislature and the office of the state’s…