False imprisonment in the first degree
Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case 139 S. Ct. 2319 - United States v. Davis (2019)
Most recently applied in Eddie J. Ashmore v. State of Arkansas (October 2024)
Acts 1975, No. 280, § 1703; A.S.A. 1947, § 41-1703.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(1) A person commits the offense of false imprisonment in the first degree if, without consent and without lawful authority, the person knowingly restrains another person so as to interfere substantially with the other person's liberty in a manner that exposes the other person to a substantial risk of serious physical injury.
(2) False imprisonment in the first degree is a Class C felony.
Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.