California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Briggs, B272003 (Cal. App. 2018):
A person who kidnaps or carries away another person to commit robbery is guilty of aggravated kidnapping. ( 209, subd. (b).) "Kidnapping for robbery requires asportation, i.e., movement of the victim that is not merely incidental to the commission of the robbery and that increases the risk of harm over that necessarily present in the crime of robbery itself." (People v. Delgado (2013) 56 Cal.4th 480, 487; accord, 209, subd. (b)(2) [aggravated kidnapping occurs only "if the movement of the victim is beyond that merely incidental to the commission of, and
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