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People v. Mulcahey

Citations

  • 381 N.E.2d 254
  • 72 Ill. 2d 282
  • 21 Ill. Dec. 176
  • 1978 Ill. LEXIS 309

How courts have described this case

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  • noting that something may be secreted or concealed from others when it is kept from their knowledge
  • noting that something may be secreted or concealed from others when it is kept from their knowledge
  • noting that something may be secreted or concealed from others when it is kept from their knowledge
  • holding victim “was ‘secretly confined’ as effectively in her own home as if [the] defendant asported her to some remote isolated place of confinement” where the defendant called the victim’s husband and told him the victim was being held hostage but did not say where
  • “[SJecret confinement contemplated by the statute may be shown by proof of the secrecy of both the confinement and place of confinement, or of either.”
  • the victim was bound to a chair in her own home

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Judges: Goldenhersh, Underwood

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