California Court of Appeal

Under Penal Code 207(a), the abduction of a non-resisting infant or child without the knowledge or permission of the parent constitutes kidnapping even if no physical strength, violence, compulsion, or constraint was used.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/26/2001
• Published 09/26/2001

Judges

• COOPER, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Jeralyn Keller, Pasadena, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, David P. Druliner, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Carol Wendelin Pollack, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Jennifer Jadovitz, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.