647 So. 2d 1244 - State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. “Aggravated kidnapping is the doing of any of the following acts with the intent to force the victim, or some other person, to give up anything of apparent present or prospective value, or to grant any advantage or immunity, in order to secure a release of the person under the offender's actual or apparent control: 1) The forcible seizing and carrying of any person from one place or another; or 2) The enticing or persuading of any person to go from one place to another; or 3) The imprisoning or forcible secreting of any person.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 756 So. 2d 587 - State v. Ballett

2. “Any person who, having a specific intent to commit a crime, does or omits an act for the purpose of and tending directly toward the accomplishing of his object is guilty of an attempt to commit the offense intended; and it shall be immaterial whether, under the circumstances, he would have actually accomplished his purpose.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 756 So. 2d 587 - State v. Ballett

3. “forcible seizing and carrying of any person from one place to another,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 756 So. 2d 587 - State v. Ballett