State v. Siemer

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that although a parent may confine his or her child under reasonable circumstances, the parent may be prosecuted for kidnapping for removal or confinement to accomplish sexual abuse or subject the child to physical injury
• finding no actual prejudice despite “all but one member of the initial panel admit[ing] a general familiarity with the crime based on news reports”
• declining to presume prejudice from a reported nonfactual allegation of abuse when viewed in the context of all evidence reported and admitted at trial
• considering whether “the court exercised abundant caution in dismissing for cause the venire persons who held negative attitudes toward the crime, generally, or against [the defendant], particularly”
• prosecution consent only required when waiver is sought within ten days of trial
• parent may be convicted for criminal confinement of child

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).