Case Title: State v. Sierra

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State: oregon

Court: Oregon Supreme Court

Date: 2010-12-30T00:00:00Z

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FILED: December 30, 2010
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON
STATE OF OREGON,
Respondent on Review,
v.
JOAQUIN SIERRA, 
Petitioner on Review.
(TC 05C40355; CA
A136120; SC S057794)
En Banc
On review from the Court of Appeals.*
Argued and submitted November 8, 2010.
David Ferry, Deputy Public Defender, Salem,
argued the cause and filed the brief for petitioner on review.  With him on the
brief was Peter Gartlan, Chief Defender.
Michael A. Casper, Assistant Attorney General,
Salem, argued the cause and filed the brief for respondent on review.  With him
on the brief were John R. Kroger, Attorney General, and Mary H. Williams,
Solicitor General.
DURHAM, J.
The decision of the Court of Appeals is affirmed
in part and reversed in part.  The judgment of the circuit court is reversed,
and the case is remanded to the circuit court for further proceedings.
*Appeal from Marion County Circuit Court, Terry
Ann Leggert, Judge. 228 Or App 149, 206 P3d 1153 (2009).
DURHAM, J.
This is a criminal
case in which defendant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to support
his two convictions for the offense of kidnapping in the second degree, ORS 163.225,
and his single conviction for the offense of kidnapping in the first degree,
ORS 163.235.(1) 
The Court of Appeals affirmed defendant's convictions.  State v. Sierra,
228 Or App 149, 206 P3d 1153 (2009).  We allowed defendant's petition for
review and now affirm his conviction for first-degree kidnapping but reverse
his two convictions for second-degree kidnapping.
Because defendant
challenges the trial court's denial of his motion for judgment of acquittal, we
state the facts underlying defendant's conviction in the light most favorable
to the state.  See State v. Cervantes, 319 Or 121, 125, 873 P2d
316 (1994) (stating that rule).(2) 
On the evening of January 14, 2005, defendant stopped at a truck stop to rest. 
The truck stop included a fast-food restaurant and an adjoining convenience
store.  The convenience store had front and rear entrances.  A "diesel
desk" with a cash register (for transactions involving diesel fuel) was
located at the rear of the store, and behind the diesel desk was a door to the
manager's office.  Ordinarily, a cashier would stand behind the diesel desk to
accept payments from customers; in doing so, the cashier would face the store's
front entrance.  The dimensions of the area behind the diesel desk were seven and
one-half feet by eight feet.  In order to access that area from the store's
rear entrance, a person ordinarily would walk around the front of the diesel
desk and up a short ramp to a raised platform behind the diesel desk.
Derrick, an employee
at the convenience store, received a complaint from a customer that a man had
an open container of alcohol in the men's restroom and had been making
inappropriate sexual comments.  Derrick reported the complaint to the shift
manager, who directed Derrick to take care of the problem.  Derrick entered the
men's restroom and saw defendant, who was rinsing his face, as well as an open
bottle of beer nearby.  Derrick informed defendant that alcohol was not allowed
in the restroom, described the complaint that he had received, and told
defendant that he should leave.  Defendant became angry and confrontational,
but Derrick was able to back him out of the restroom without a physical
altercation.  At that point, defendant left the store area through the rear
entrance.  Derrick, the shift manager, and another employee remained outside
the rear entrance.
Defendant returned
to his truck, where he thought about the confrontation.  After a few minutes,
he decided to return to the store in order to scare Derrick and secure an
apology.  He grabbed a loaded crossbow and extra bolts (i.e., ammunition
for the crossbow) from his truck, and walked back to the store.  When the shift
manager and the other employee saw defendant approach with the crossbow, they
ran into the store and locked themselves inside the manager's office.  Derrick
remained outside.  Defendant grabbed Derrick's arm, pointed the crossbow at
Derrick's head, and took him inside the convenience store.
Defendant directed
Derrick through the rear entrance, around the front of the diesel desk, up the
ramp, and made Derrick kneel in the middle of the area behind the diesel desk. 
Defendant stood in that area, a little to the front of Derrick, in a position
that would permit him to monitor the front and rear entrances.  Defendant yelled
insults at Derrick.  He told Derrick that the accusations -- i.e.,
Derrick's relation of the customer's complaint -- had hurt him.  He threatened
to hurt Derrick and his children, and asked Derrick how he would feel if
defendant hurt Derrick's daughter in the same way that Derrick had hurt him. 
At some point, he kicked Derrick in the face, causing a bloody nose.  
Jeter and Mintun,
two off-duty employees of a youth correctional facility, had stopped at the
truck stop to eat at the adjoining restaurant.  They heard a commotion and went
into the convenience store to see if they could assist.  Jeter testified that
he had encountered defendant in the men's restroom earlier in the evening and
that defendant had been "pretty good" with him, but that, when Jeter
entered the convenience store, defendant was "upset" and "out of
control."  Mintun attempted to divert defendant's attention so that Jeter
would be able to restrain him.  Defendant yelled at Jeter and Mintun to leave. 
When they refused, defendant pointed the crossbow at them.  He directed them to
come around the front of the diesel desk and up the ramp to the area behind the
diesel desk, and then ordered them to kneel next to Derrick.  He then paced
back and forth while yelling and pointing his crossbow at all three
individuals.
Three sheriff's
deputies and an Oregon State Police sergeant arrived at the scene.  After some
of the officers peeked through the store's windows and saw defendant behind the
diesel desk pointing the crossbow at the victims, the officers decided to enter
the store to end the situation.  When the officers entered, announced their
presence, and ordered defendant to drop his weapon, defendant turned towards
them and pointed the crossbow in their direction.  One of the officers shot
defendant.
An 11-count
indictment charged defendant with seven counts of unlawful use of a weapon, one
count of fourth-degree assault (of Derrick), one count of first-degree
kidnapping (of Derrick), and two counts of second-degree kidnapping (of Jeter and
Mintun).  Each of the kidnapping counts alleged that defendant "did
unlawfully and knowingly, without consent or legal authority, take [the victim]
from one place to another, with intent to interfere substantially with the
[victim's] personal liberty."  The first-degree kidnapping charge, which
pertained to Derrick, alleged, in addition, that defendant acted "with the
purpose of terrorizing * * * Derrick."
The case proceeded
to a jury trial.  At the close of the state's case, defendant moved for a judgment
of acquittal on the kidnapping charges.  As to the first-degree kidnapping
charge, defendant argued that the evidence was insufficient to show that he had
acted with the purpose of "terrorizing" Derrick.  As to the
second-degree kidnapping charges, defendant argued that the state had not
introduced sufficient evidence to prove that he had moved Jeter and Mintun
"from one place to another" or that he had intended to
"interfere substantially with [their] liberty."  The trial court denied
the motions for judgment of acquittal, and the jury convicted defendant of all
three kidnapping charges.(3) 
On defendant's appeal, the Court of Appeals affirmed in a written opinion.  State
v. Sierra, 228 Or App 149, 206 P3d 1153 (2009).  Defendant then petitioned
for review, challenging the sufficiency of the evidence as to each of his three
kidnapping convictions.
We begin by
addressing the parties' arguments concerning defendant's second-degree
kidnapping convictions for his actions taken against Jeter and Mintun. ORS
163.225(1), which defines the offense of kidnapping in the second degree,
provides:
"(1) A person commits the crime of
kidnapping in the second degree if, with intent to interfere substantially with
another's personal liberty, and without consent or legal authority, the person:

"(a) Takes the person from one place to
another; or
"(b) Secretly confines the person in a
place where the person is not likely to be found."
ORS 163.225(1)(a) and (b) thus provide
alternative ways for the state to prove the act element of kidnapping.  As
noted above, in this case, by alleging in the indictment that defendant did
"take [the victims] from one place to another," the state elected to
proceed on the asportation theory under ORS 163.225(1)(a).  Thus, to establish
kidnapping here, the state had to prove that defendant (1) "without
consent or legal authority," (2) took the victims "from one place to
another," (3) "with intent to interfere substantially" with the
victims' "personal liberty."  On review, defendant renews his
argument that the state presented insufficient evidence as to the latter two
elements.  We first consider whether, viewed in the light most favorable to the
state, the evidence was sufficient to prove the act element of kidnapping,
namely, that defendant took Jeter and Mintun "from one place to
another."
The state and
defendant offer competing understandings as to the meaning of the act element
of kidnapping by asportation.  Defendant proposes that that element is
satisfied when a defendant takes the victim either a substantial
distance or to a qualitatively different place.  Defendant submits that, as a
general rule, movement within a single structure (such as a home, building, or
car), including room-to-room movement, will not be movement to a qualitatively
different place in terms of interference with a victim's liberty.  The state
appears to share defendant's view that the beginning place and ending place
must be qualitatively different, but argues that place-to-place movement
requires only proof that "the defendant moved the victim to a place that
served to limit the victim's freedom of movement and increased the victim's
isolation."  The parties both acknowledge, as they must, that, in order to
prove that defendant took a victim "from one place to another," the
state is not required to prove that defendant took the victim a substantial
distance.  See State v. Walch, 346 Or 463, 473, 213 P3d 1201
(2009) (holding that legislature did not intend to incorporate a
"substantial distance" requirement into ORS 163.225(1)(a) when it
used the phrase "from one place to another").
Our inquiry does not
begin with a clean slate.  This court has considered the meaning of the phrase
"from one place to another" twice before, in State v. Murray,
340 Or 599, 136 P3d 10 (2006) and State v. Walch, 346 Or 463, 213 P3d
1201 (2009).  Those decisions provide guidance here.  In Murray, the
court explained that the meaning of the phrase "from one place to
another" reduces to an inquiry into the meaning of the word
"place:"
"The question of what is included in the
concept of 'taking' a person 'from one place to another' is, at bottom, an
exercise in metaphysics.  The words 'from' and 'to' create no problem here,
because they clearly describe the idea of movement, i.e., of a change of
position.  And 'another' simply replicates 'place' -- i.e., the
statutory phrase fairly may be paraphrased as a matter of standard English to
require that a person be moved 'from place to place.'  Thus, in the final
analysis, this case comes down to the question of how one is to define the term
'place' for the purposes of ORS 163.225(1)(a)."
340 Or at 603.
Admittedly,
pinpointing the legislature's intended meaning of the word "place"
with precision has proved somewhat vexing.  The criminal code does not define
the term, and the dictionary definition provides little assistance.  Id. at
603-04 (explaining that the most relevant dictionary definition of
"place" -- "an indefinite region or expanse" -- does little
to clarify the meaning of the term as used in the kidnapping statutes); see
also Walch, 346 Or at 470-73 (considering legislative history).  However,
in Murray, 340 Or at 606, the court explained that, as used in the
kidnapping statutes, "the 'place' in which something or someone may be
found and from which that something or someone may be taken is situational and
contextual.  It is, among other things, a function of the object to be moved,
as well as a function of the area in which the movement occurs."  In Walch,
the court further clarified the significance of the legislature's choice to use
the word "place" within the phrase "from one place to
another:"
"[T]he legislature intended the asportation element to
aid in narrowing the definition of kidnapping * * *.  ORS 163.225(1)(a)
requires that the defendant move the victim 'from one place to another' -- not,
for instance, that the defendant simply 'move' the victim or move the victim
'any distance.'  The legislature intended the word 'place' to have some
meaning; that is, a kidnapping does not occur by moving the victim any distance
with intent to interfere substantially with his or her personal liberty. 
Rather, the movement must be such that it can be said that the victim was moved
from 'one place' to 'another [place].'"
Walch, 346 Or
at 473-74.  Thus, under Murray and Walch, a defendant can be said
to have moved the victim from "one place" to "another" only
when the defendant changes the position of the victim such that, as a matter of
situation and context, the victim's ending place is qualitatively different
from the victim's starting place.
Moreover, Murray and
Walch identify an additional requirement contained within the act
element:  the taking must not be "only 'incidental'" to another
crime.  Murray, 340 Or at 606 ("incidental" asportation is
"not the kind of conduct that the legislature intended to permit to serve
as the basis for a separate kidnapping charge"); Walch, 346 Or at
478 ("kidnapping requires a 'tak[ing]' of the victim 'from one place to
another' that is not '"only incidental"' to another crime."). 
This court's previous decisions have recognized that the legislature sought to
prevent prosecutors from charging kidnapping when a defendant's movement of a
victim was only incidental to another crime.  See State v. Mejia,
348 Or 1, 7-8, 227 P3d 1139 (2010) (to that effect); Walch, 346 Or at
473 (same).  The primary means by which the legislature accomplished that goal
was through the narrowly crafted intent element that requires the state to
prove that the defendant intended to interfere substantially with the victim's
liberty.  Id.  However, the legislature also crafted the
asportation act element of ORS 163.225(1)(a) with that same overarching goal in
mind.  See Walch, 346 Or at 473 ("[T]he wording of the [kidnapping]
statute indicates that the legislature intended the asportation element to aid
in narrowing the definition of kidnapping[.]").
The rules outlined
above explain the divergent outcomes in Murray and Walch.  In Murray,
the victim was in the driver's seat of her car when the defendant approached,
instructed her to "[g]et over" and forcibly pushed her from the
driver's seat to the passenger's seat.  340 Or at 601.  From there, the victim
escaped by exiting through the passenger side door; defendant then drove the
car away.  Id. at 602.  The court held that defendant's movement of the
victim was insufficient to satisfy the act element of kidnapping by asportation
because, even assuming that the movement of the victim from driver's seat to
passenger's seat was place-to-place movement, that movement was incidental to
defendant's substantive crime:
"[E]ven if one were to find some sort of asportation in
the events in question, it was only 'incidental' * * * to defendant's theft of
the car and, therefore, not the kind of conduct that the legislature intended
to permit to serve as the basis for a separate kidnapping charge."
Id. at 606; see
also Walch, 346 Or at 479 (explaining that, in Murray, "[t]he
defendant's physical contact with the victim was 'only incidental' to the other
crimes that he committed").
In contrast, Walch
involved nonincidental movement "from one place to another."  The
defendant in Walch attacked the victim when she was standing in her
driveway, walking back toward an adjacent house.  346 Or at 466.  He began to
strangle her and told her that he wanted her money.  Id.  After the
victim told defendant that her money was in the house, defendant continued to
drag the victim toward a car, picked her up, and shoved her into the trunk of the
car.  After the victim resisted, defendant eventually let her return to the
house.  Id.  On those facts, the court held that the defendant had taken
the victim "from one place to another:"
"Defendant * * * picked the victim up and shoved her
into a car, a location (and an object) intended to quickly move people a
distance of some miles. * * * Because the context is such that defendant moved
the victim from one place (the open driveway) to a qualitatively different,
more mobile and isolated place (the trunk of a car), we conclude that the
asportation element of the kidnapping statute has been satisfied."
Id. at 476.(4)   The court then
concluded that defendant's movement of the victim was not incidental to the
other crimes:  After assaulting and robbing the victim, defendant "also
moved the victim about 15 feet to the car, lifted her off the ground,
placed her in the trunk, and tried to shut the trunk lid."  Id. at
479 (emphasis in original).  In our view, Murray and Walch are 
consistent:  The former involved only incidental movement of the victim, while
the latter involved non-incidental movement of the victim between two
qualitatively different places.(5)
We pause before
turning to the facts of this case in order to dispel any misconceptions that
may persist as to the meaning the phrase "from one place to another"
as it is used in the kidnapping statutes.  First, because the wording selected
by the legislature requires movement from one place to a second, distinct
place, it generally is problematic to suggest or conclude that minimal movement
that effectuates little change in the victim's position -- such as, for
example, movement requiring one to step to the side, or move from a standing
position to a sitting or lying position -- is movement "from one place to
another."  Second, because the asportation element is defined in terms of
relative movement, the degree of force or threat used by a defendant to effectuate
the victim's movement ordinarily is not relevant to a determination whether a
victim has been "taken from one place to another."  Third, the degree
by which the movement in question increases defendant's control over the
victim, or isolates the victim from the view of others, is relevant to the
determination whether a defendant has moved a victim "from one place to
another" only to the extent that those considerations tend to demonstrate
the qualitative difference between where the victim started ("from one
place") and where the victim was as a result of the defendant's conduct
("another [place]").  See Walch, 346 Or at 482 (When
defendant forced victim from a driveway outside her home into a car trunk,
existence of car trunk is relevant "not because it is a 'secret' place * *
* but because it was "'another' 'place' to which defendant took the
victim[.]").(6) 
However, because neither isolation nor control of the victim is required by the
wording of ORS 163.225(1)(a), those considerations cannot be substituted for
the ultimate inquiry whether the victim was moved from one place to another.
With the above
framework in mind, we turn to defendant's conduct towards Jeter and Mintun. 
Jeter and Mintun entered the store of their free will in an attempt to distract
or disarm defendant.  Defendant's encounter with the pair did not commence
until they were already inside the convenience store.  Viewing the evidence in
the light most favorable to the state, the record indicates that defendant
compelled Minton and Jeter to move from some location near the front of the
convenience store to the diesel desk at the rear of the store, around the front
of the diesel desk counter, and up the ramp to the area behind the diesel desk,
a seven-and-one-half foot by eight foot bounded area behind a cashier's desk.  He
then ordered them to kneel.
We decline to adopt
defendant's proposed rule that movement of a victim within a single structure
will never be place-to-place movement.  However, the
"situation[]" and "context[]" of this case do not allow a
rational fact finder to conclude that defendant's movement of Jeter and Mintun
was from "one place to another."  The beginning location (inside a
convenience store, near the front door) and the ending location (inside the
same room, behind a diesel counter near the back of the room) of defendant's
contact with Jeter and Mintun are not "qualitatively different"
locations, such that the movement was the sort of change in position from one
place to another contemplated by the drafters of the kidnapping statute. 
Despite the existence of brief physical movements, Jeter and Mintun ended up in
the same room of the same building that they had entered.  Defendant positioned
Jeter and Mintun across the room and behind a desk in a kneeling position.  In
this context, however, those are changes of position and posture in the same
general place, not a movement of victims to a qualitatively different place.
The facts adduced
here also demonstrate that the movement of Jeter and Mintun was incidental to
-- that is, inherent in, or a chance or minor consequence of -- defendant's
independent crimes of unlawful use of a weapon(7)
or menacing(8)
against those victims.  In light of Jeter and Mintun's refusal to leave,
defendant's movement of those two to the area behind the diesel desk was part
of defendant's positioning of his victims in a single location so that he could
point his crossbow at all three of them simultaneously.  Like the defendant's
conduct in Murray, defendant's conduct in this instance was "not
the kind of conduct that the legislature intended to permit to serve as the
basis for a separate kidnapping charge."
The foregoing
discussion leads us to conclude that the state introduced insufficient evidence
to prove the two charges of kidnapping in the second degree.(8)  As a result, the trial
court erred in denying defendant's motion for judgment of acquittal on those
charges.  We reverse the trial court's judgment as to those two charges and
remand the case to the trial court so that that court can enter a judgment of
acquittal as to those charges.
Next, we turn to the
sufficiency of the evidence as to defendant's first-degree kidnapping
conviction for his actions involving Derrick.  A defendant commits the offense
of kidnapping in the first degree if the state proves the elements required for
kidnapping in the second degree(9)
and also proves that the defendant acted with additional malevolent purpose
specified in ORS 163.235.  In part, ORS 163.235 provides:
"(1) A person commits the crime of
kidnapping in the first degree if the person violates ORS 163.225 with any of
the following purposes: 
"* * * * * 
"(d) To terrorize the victim or another
person * * *[.]"
With respect to defendant's conviction for
kidnapping in the first degree, the only issue on review is whether the state
presented sufficient evidence for a rational trier of fact to conclude that
defendant kidnapped Derrick with the purpose of "terroriz[ing]" him.(10)
The legislature
enacted ORS 163.235 as part of the Oregon Criminal Code of 1971, which was a
comprehensive revision of Oregon's substantive criminal law.  Criminal Law
Revision Commission Proposed Oregon Criminal Code, Final Draft and Report § 99 (July 1970).  Although the word
"terrorize" is not defined by statute, the commentary accompanying
the Criminal Law Revision Commission's final draft indicates that the
legislature intended to adopt the word's plain meaning:
"'Terrorize' is defined by Webster's
as meaning 'to fill with terror; to coerce, maintain power, etc. by inducing
terror.'  The dictionary defines terror as meaning 'intense fear * * * the
quality of causing dread; terribleness.'  Webster's New World Dictionary (Coll
ed 1968).  The verb form of the word seems particularly apt for use in a
kidnapping statute; and the American Law Institute indicates that the term was
employed in the Model Penal Code to cover 'vengeful or sadistic abductions
accompanied by threats of torture, death or other severely frightening
experience.' [Commentary, Tent. Draft no. 11 at 18 (1960)].  Section 99 adopts
this view and is concerned with the intent or purpose of the
actor and not with the subjective effect of his actions upon either the person
kidnapped or other persons."
Id. (ellipsis
and brackets in original).
Defendant does not
appear to dispute the applicable definition of "terrorize."  Rather,
he disputes whether the foregoing definition applies to his conduct in this
case.  He concedes that the evidence may support a conclusion that he kidnapped
Derrick with the purpose of frightening him, embarrassing him, or instilling
some fear in him, but he contends that the evidence is insufficient to support
the conclusion that he acted with the "different and greater" purpose
of terrorizing Derrick.
We disagree.  In our
view, the state presented sufficient evidence for a rational juror to conclude
that defendant kidnapped Derrick with the purpose of terrorizing him, i.e.,
with the purpose of filling Derrick with intense fear or dread.  Viewing the
evidence in the light most favorable to the state, the evidence establishes
that defendant returned to the store with the express purpose of using a
crossbow in order to coerce an apology from Derrick.  Defendant maintained
power over Derrick by pointing a crossbow at his head at close range and
forcing him to kneel in a small, bounded area.  Defendant yelled at Derrick,
called him names, threatened to harm Derrick and Derrick's daughter, and kicked
Derrick in the head.  From that conduct, a rational juror could have inferred
that defendant's purpose in kidnapping Derrick was to take revenge upon Derrick
for Derrick's earlier comments and actions by causing Derrick to undergo a severely
frightening experience.  Accordingly, we affirm defendant's conviction for
kidnapping in the first-degree.
To summarize, we reverse defendant's two convictions for kidnapping
in the second degree and affirm defendant's conviction for kidnapping in the
first degree.
The decision of the
Court of Appeals is affirmed in part and reversed in part.  The judgment of the
circuit court is reversed, and the case is remanded to the circuit court for
further proceedings.
1. The
2003 version of ORS 163.225 and ORS 163.235 was in effect at the time that
defendant committed his offenses.  Since 2003, the legislature has amended
other portions of ORS 163.225 and ORS 163.235.  Those amendments are not relevant
to the disposition of this case.
2. Our
"record on review * * * consist[s] of the record before the Court of
Appeals."  ORAP 9.20(5).  In this case, that record does not contain the
exhibits submitted by the parties at trial.
3. The
jury also convicted defendant of assault in the fourth degree and five counts
of unlawful use of a weapon.  The jury acquitted defendant of one unlawful use
of a weapon charge.  The state had dismissed another one of the unlawful use of
a weapon charges prior to trial.
4. Although
the ultimate determination of whether a victim has been taken from "one
place to another" is situational and contextual, we note that one aspect
of a vehicle that distinguishes it from a number of other locations is its
mobile nature.  See Walch, 346 Or at 476 (describing a car as "a
location (and an object) intended to quickly move people a distance of some
miles").  The mobile nature of a vehicle was an important aspect of  our
holding in Walch that the movement there was from "one place to
another."
5. We
emphasize that our review of the facts in Murray, Walch, and
other related cases is not intended to announce specific factual criteria that
necessarily will dictate the result in other cases.  Fact-matching can be a
misleading enterprise.  Instead, we take our guidance from the legislature's
specified criteria, that is, whether a defendant has moved a victim "from
one place to another," considered in light of the situation and context in
which that issue arises.
6. As
we stated in Walch, 346 Or at 482 n 11, we again caution here that
"the asportation and confinement elements are not mutually
exclusive."  Because, in this case, the state charged asportation and not
confinement, there is no need to consider whether the evidence in this case
would have supported a conviction under the confinement prong of ORS
163.225(1).
7. Pursuant
to ORS 166.220(1), which sets out the offense of unlawful use of a weapon, the
indictment charged that defendant "did unlawfully attempt to use
unlawfully against [Mintun and Jeter] a crossbow, a dangerous weapon."  
The jury found defendant guilty of those charges.
8. ORS
163.190(1) provides:
"A person commits the crime of menacing if
by word or conduct the person intentionally attempts to place another person in
fear of imminent serious physical injury."
The state did not charge defendant with menacing in this
case.
9. On
review, the parties also dispute whether the state presented sufficient
evidence for a rational trier of fact to conclude that the state had proved the
intent element -- i.e., defendant's "intent to interfere
substantially" with Jeter and Mintun's personal liberty.  Because we
reverse defendant's second-degree kidnapping convictions on the ground that the
state presented insufficient evidence as to the act element, we need not
address the sufficiency of the evidence as to the intent element.
10. Defendant
concedes that the state provided sufficient evidence for a trier of fact to
have convicted defendant of second-degree kidnapping of Derrick.  In other
words, he does not dispute that he moved Derrick from one place to another
without Derrick's consent with the intent to interfere substantially with
Derrick's personal liberty.