Defendant’s conviction for evading a police officer while driving recklessly and kidnapping is affirmed for the most part but reversed and remanded with respect to the kidnapping conviction as the court erred by failing to instruct the jury on a defendant’s incidental movement of an alleged kidnapping victim.     

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Filed November 20, 2009

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Opinion by Judge Ikola

CounselFor Appellant:   John L. Dodd,

For Appellee:   Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gary W. Schons, Assistant Attorney General, Jeffrey J. Koch, Pamela Ratner Sobeck, and Scott Taylor, Deputy Attorneys General

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