DIEZ v. STATE

No. 4D06-2488.

970 So.2d 931 (2008)

Martin DIEZ, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

January 2, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Alan T. Lipson, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Melynda L. Melear, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.


STONE, J.

We affirm Diez's conviction on counts of armed kidnapping of a child under thirteen years of age, armed kidnapping, armed burglary, and interference with custody. The primary issue on appeal is whether the state proved a prima facie case of kidnapping as to the two victims.

Diez committed the offenses in an effort to forcefully remove E.L., age five, from her mother's (Eunice's) care in Broward County and take E.L. to her grandparents, who are from...

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