People v. Gonzalez

JUSTICE ROBERT E. GORDON,

dissenting:

I respectfully dissent.

Justice Wolfson’s majority decision is well written but its reasoning ignores existing case law. I agree with the majority that the case must be decided on the meaning and interpretation of the words in the statute “secretly confines another.” 720 ILCS 5/10 — 1(a)(1) (West 2006). In People v. Mulcahey, 72 Ill. 2d 282, 285 (1978), our Illinois Supreme Court found that the wife of a bank president, who informed her husband that she was being held hostage for ransom, was secretly confined when she was taped to a chair in her own home and…