Vaught v. State
Annotate this CaseDefendant was convicted of two counts of first-degree sexual assault and one count of kidnapping. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding (1) the district court did not commit plain error by failing to instruct the jury on the “incidental rule,” i.e., that confinement would not support a kidnapping conviction unless it was separate from and not merely an incident of the sexual assaults; and (2) there was no plain error in the district court’s reply to a question from the jury that the jurors should review the instructions already given by the court.
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