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PEOPLE v. BELL

No. G041051.

179 Cal.App.4th 428 (2009)

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. RODNEY BELL, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District, Division Three.

November 19, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John L. Dodd, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gary W. Schons, Assistant Attorney General, Jeffrey J. Koch, Pamela Ratner Sobeck and Scott Taylor, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

IKOLA, J.—

A jury convicted defendant Rodney Bell of evading a police officer while driving recklessly, as well as kidnapping and other offenses. On appeal, he challenges his kidnapping conviction, alleging jury instructional error. We agree with defendant that the court failed to give the jury complete instructions on simple kidnapping and therefore his kidnapping conviction must be reversed.1 In...

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