State Vs Federal Crime
this text will concern itself with kidnapping. Kidnapping, in basic terms, has got to do with the illegitimate or illegal restraint/imprisonment and transfer of an individual from a specified place to another against his or her will (Carper, McKinsey, and West, 2007). Kidnapping could be prosecuted in either federal or state courts. Kidnapping as a Federal Offense When state lines are breached, then kidnapping automatically becomes a federal felony. More specifically, in the words of Bacigal (2008), “whoever unlawfully seizes, confines, inveigles, decoys, kidnaps, abducts, or carries away and holds for ransom or reward or otherwise any person when the person is willfully transported in interstate or foreign commerce”… Continue Reading...
