Street v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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14 state decisions

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1. ““At common law, the offense of kidnapping was the forcible abduction or stealing away of a person and sending him into another country. ‘It was regarded as an aggravated form of false imprisonment, since it embraced all of the elements of that offense, with the additional element of carrying the victim out of his own country and beyond the protection of its laws.’ Although at common law, the accused had to carry the person kidnapped into another country before he was subject to prosecution for kidnapping, statutes concerning the offense in this country have usually provided that both intra-state as well as inter-state kidnapping are felonies and severely punishable. False imprisonment, which is punishable as an aggravated assault, is merely the unlawful detention of a person against his will. Although false imprisonment in most states is punishable by statute, it is a common law offense, and, in the absence of a statute, is punishable as such, as it is in this State.” (citations omitted) (emphasis in original).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 93 Md. App. 422 - Lamb v. State