47 Va. App. 173 - Wiggins v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. “[tjhose factors are: (1) the duration of the detention or asportation; (2) whether the detention or asportation occurred during the commission of a separate offense; (3) whether the detention or asportation which occurred is inherent in the separate offense; and (4) whether the asportation or detention created a significant danger to the victim independent of that posed by the separate offense.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Manneh Vay v. Commonwealth of Virginia

2. “[a]ny person, who, by force, intimidation or deception, and without legal justification or excuse, seizes, takes, transports, detains or secretes the person of another, with the intent to deprive such other person of his personal liberty ... shall be deemed guilty of 'abduction'....’’ Code § 18.2-48, in turn, provides a more severe punishment for (i) abduction”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 48 Va. App. 393 - Fields v. Commonwealth

3. “I thus concur only in the result in this case, as I believe Hoyt requires me to do.” (emphasis added)). 6 . When confronted at oral argument with Lawlor's holding in this regard, appellant responded that the Supreme Court”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Manneh Vay v. Commonwealth of Virginia