Penal Code section 207, subdivision (a) provides: "Every person who forcibly, or by any other means of instilling fear, steals, or takes, or holds, detains, or arrests any person in this state, and carries the person into another country, state, or county, or into another part of the same county, is guilty of kidnapping." We granted review to resolve the issue of what quantum of force, if any, must be shown...
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