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· 5/16/1989

State v. Corneau

Citations

  • 781 P.2d 1159
  • 109 N.M. 81

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • false imprisonment is a continuing offense, while the offense of criminal sexual penetration is completed upon penetration
  • false imprisonment could be used to raise criminal sexual penetration to a second-degree felony when evidence supported a finding of false imprisonment separate from the false imprisonment necessarily involved in almost every act of criminal sexual penetration
  • “[A]ny restraint after the completed CSP is separate from the CSP itself, not inherent in the CSP, and does not constitute the same force or coercion necessary to establish CSP[.]” (internal quotation marks omitted)
  • “Ordinarily, almost any act of CSP will involve a restraint or confinement}.]”

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Judges: Bivins, Donnelly, Chavez

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