Oregon Supreme Court· 2/17/2011

State v. Sierra

Citations

247 P.3d 759
349 Or. 604
2011 Ore. LEXIS 107

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“Because we reverse defendant’s second-degree kidnapping convictions on the ground that the state presented insufficient evidence as to the act element, we need not address the sufficiency of the evidence as to the intent element.”
a defendant moves a victim from one place to another “only when the defendant changes the position of the victim such that, as a matter of situation and context, the victim’s ending place is qualitatively different from the victim’s starting place”
“[A] defendant can be said to have moved the victim from ‘one place’ to ‘another’ only when the defendant changes the position of the victim such that, as a matter of situation and context, the victim’s ending place is qualitatively different from the victim’s starting place.”
“Factmatching can be a mis- leading enterprise.”
“Fact-matching can be a misleading enterprise.”

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