State v. Hoopii

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• no merger of kidnapping and sexual assault offenses where defendant’s conduct constituted separate offenses under law
• “rape and sodomy statutes are primarily concerned with preventing another from being forced to engage in sexual acts”
• in which the defendantappellant relied in part upon the continuing-course-of-eonduet exception of HRS § 701-109(1)(e)
• the act of kidnapping was completed at the moment the defendant restrained the complainant by abducting her, putting her in his van, and driving away; any subsequent restraint committed during the sexual assault was not necessary to the perpetration of the kidnapping

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).