Kidnapping: Jaycee Duggard Case
Kidnapping
The Kidnapping laws and abduction laws of people differ from state to state in the country, but generally they are the same everywhere. They apply to anyone who “without lawful authority, forcibly seizes and confines another, with intent to cause such other person to be secretly confined or imprisoned against his will” (Abduction). Kidnapping is also the unlawful taking of the victim and nefarious motive like obtaining a ransom. An excellent case of kidnapping would be the Jaycee Duggard Case. This case revolves around Phillip Garrido who kidnapped Jaycee Duggard at the age of 11 in 1991. By that time Garrido was already a convicted rapist when he had forcibly taken Duggard just outside her home. Garrido then raped Jaycee repeatedly …show more content…
These legal terms that are used as such are perjury, bribery and contempt. Perjury is the offense of willingly telling an unlawful truth in a court after having taken an oath or affirmation. An example of this would be in domestic case, where one of the partners could lie under oath so as not see their spouse sent to jail for committing a domestic battery. Bribery on the other hand, would be the “offering, giving, receiving, or soliciting of something of value for the purpose of influencing the action of an official in the discharge of his or her public or legal duties” (Bribery). Continuing with the same domestic case, Bribery would be committed if the defendant offered money to the judge to give a more lenient sentence. Bribery would also be committed, if the judge himself decided to offer to sway the defendant’s sentence for money. The last offense is contempt, which is being disobedient to or disrespectful of a courts law and its officers. However, since there is civil law and criminal law, there is also civil contempt and criminal contempt. Civil is the willful disobedience to and judgement, decree, direction, order, writ, or other court process or willful breach of court. On the other hand criminal contempt is generally regarded as a disobedient or open disrespect for the
The Kidnapping laws and abduction laws of people differ from state to state in the country, but generally they are the same everywhere. They apply to anyone who “without lawful authority, forcibly seizes and confines another, with intent to cause such other person to be secretly confined or imprisoned against his will” (Abduction). Kidnapping is also the unlawful taking of the victim and nefarious motive like obtaining a ransom. An excellent case of kidnapping would be the Jaycee Duggard Case. This case revolves around Phillip Garrido who kidnapped Jaycee Duggard at the age of 11 in 1991. By that time Garrido was already a convicted rapist when he had forcibly taken Duggard just outside her home. Garrido then raped Jaycee repeatedly …show more content…
These legal terms that are used as such are perjury, bribery and contempt. Perjury is the offense of willingly telling an unlawful truth in a court after having taken an oath or affirmation. An example of this would be in domestic case, where one of the partners could lie under oath so as not see their spouse sent to jail for committing a domestic battery. Bribery on the other hand, would be the “offering, giving, receiving, or soliciting of something of value for the purpose of influencing the action of an official in the discharge of his or her public or legal duties” (Bribery). Continuing with the same domestic case, Bribery would be committed if the defendant offered money to the judge to give a more lenient sentence. Bribery would also be committed, if the judge himself decided to offer to sway the defendant’s sentence for money. The last offense is contempt, which is being disobedient to or disrespectful of a courts law and its officers. However, since there is civil law and criminal law, there is also civil contempt and criminal contempt. Civil is the willful disobedience to and judgement, decree, direction, order, writ, or other court process or willful breach of court. On the other hand criminal contempt is generally regarded as a disobedient or open disrespect for the