State v. Boyce

BRADY, Justice.

This case presents the issue of whether defendant’s act of restraint and removal in preventing the victim’s escape from her residence, at a time when defendant’s subsequent robbery with a dangerous weapon had not yet begun, was sufficient to support a conviction for second-degree kidnapping. Because we find defendant’s conduct was legally sufficient to constitute the separate, complete act of second-degree kidnapping and, moreover, that the kidnapping facilitated the accompanying robbery, we affirm the Court of Appeals.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

The pivotal facts are as…