Supreme Court of California

The amount of force required to kidnap an unresisting infant or child is simply the amount of physical force required to take and carry the child away a substantial distance for an illegal purpose or with an illegal intent, under Penal Code section 207(a).

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/16/2002
• Published 12/16/2002

Judges

•  MORENO, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  Jeralyn Keller, Pasadena, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, David P. Druliner and Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Carol Wendelin Pollack and Pamela C. Hamanaka, Assistant Attorneys General, Chung L. Mar, Victoria B. Wilson and Jennifer A. Jadovitz, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.