How have courts considered kidnapping to be such a dangerous felony as to support a conviction of second degree felony murder?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Johnson, 15 Cal.App.4th 169, 18 Cal.Rptr.2d 650 (Cal. App. 1993):
We have come to similar conclusions in other cases. In People v. Pearch (1991) 229 Cal.App.3d 1282, 1297-1299, 280 Cal.Rptr. 584 we held kidnapping to be such an "inherently dangerous felony" as would support a conviction of second degree felony murder. There we stated that kidnapping is "fraught with violence--either the actual use of physical force or the threat of
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