Opinion ID: 1210547
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Heading: First degree kidnapping with use of a deadly weapon.

Text: This charge is based on Thomas restraining Dixon in the men's bathroom or enticing Dixon into the bathroom where he was murdered. NRS 200.310(1) provides in pertinent part that a first degree kidnapping occurs when [a] person ... willfully seizes, confines, inveigles, entices, decoys, abducts, conceals, kidnaps or carries away a person by any means whatsoever with the intent to hold or detain, or ... holds or detains, the person... for the purpose of killing the person or inflicting substantial bodily harm upon him. Thomas first asserts that just because Dixon's body was found in the bathroom does not necessarily mean that Thomas enticed or decoyed Dixon into the bathroom for the purpose of killing him. Thomas fails to recognize that in his own videotaped confession, he admitted that he entered the bathroom and blocked the door specifically to prevent Dixon (and Gianakis) from leaving. Therefore, the statute is satisfied because Thomas willfully confined Dixon in the bathroom with the intent to hold or detain him. See id. Additionally, according to Thomas, when Dixon tried to leave, Thomas prevented him from doing so by stabbing him several times, thus killing him. Therefore, Thomas did hold or detain Dixon for the purpose of killing him. See id. Moreover, evidence that Thomas enticed Dixon into the bathroom was also presented through Hall's preliminary hearing testimony. Accordingly, sufficient evidence exists to support the kidnapping conviction.