State v. Wolleat

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that one way of proving intent to substantially interfere with a victim’s personal liberty is evidence of an intent to confine a victim
• “[MJoving a victim ‘from one place to another’ will be sufficient to establish the element of aspor-tation.”
• identifying and applying that standard of review for sufficiency of evidence in kidnapping case
• “Moving a victim from one room to another while committing another crime does not constitute moving the victim a substantial distance.”
• looking to Commentary to the Criminal Code as source of legislative history
• asportation element “does not require that a defendant take a victim a specific distance, nor does it require that the distance be substantial”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).