Opinion ID: 2569354
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Heading Rank: 15

Heading: Whether the trial court's instructions on the sexual assault and use of a deadly weapon aspects of second degree kidnapping were proper.

Text: Sexual assault kidnapping and deadly weapon kidnapping are not mutually exclusive. The phrase use of a deadly weapon but did not include sexual assault or robbery means that a second degree kidnapping that involves sexual assault is still a class 2 felony, and is not reduced to a class 3 felony, when the defendant uses a deadly weapon. See § 18-3-302(4), 6 C.R.S. (1999). The court's refusal to instruct the jury that robbery or sexual assault and use of a deadly weapon were elements of second degree kidnapping is consistent with People v. Henderson, 810 P.2d 1058, 1062 (Colo.1991).