State v. Covino

Defendant appeals his jury conviction of kidnapping an eleven-year-old girl, 13 V.S.A. §§ 2401,2402. He claims that the trial court erred by instructing the jury that the element of forcible confinement could be established by proof of deception or misrepresentation and that the elements of the offense need not occur simultaneously. He also asserts error in the exclusion of defendant’s evidence of his prearrest conduct and in admitting evidence gathered in a warrantless search of his appointment book. We affirm.

In the spring of 1988, the victim, an eleven-year-old child, went to visit her…