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RESTRAINING A PERSON FOR A FEW SECONDS WHILE ATTEMPTING TO PULL THAT PERSON INTO A VEHICLE DOES NOT SATISFY THE CRITERIA FOR KIDNAPPING (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department, reversing (modifying) Family Court in this juvenile delinquency proceeding, determined the evidence did not support the kidnapping charge:

… Family Court’s determination that the appellant committed acts which, if committed by an adult, would have constituted the crime of kidnapping in the second degree was against the weight of the evidence. “A person is guilty of kidnapping in the second degree when he [or she] abducts another person” (Penal Law § 135.20 …). As relevant here, abduction “means to restrain a person with intent to prevent his [or her] liberation by either secreting or holding him [or her] in a place where he [or she] is not likely to be found” … . “Restrain means to restrict a person’s movements intentionally and unlawfully in such manner as to interfere substantially with his [or her] liberty by moving him [or her] from one place to another, or by confining him [or her] . . . without consent and with knowledge that the restriction is unlawful” … . Here, the presentment agency’s evidence demonstrated that the appellant restrained the complainant for a very short time while the two were in the midst of a physical altercation. Although the complainant testified that the appellant pulled her partway into a vehicle, at least one door of the vehicle remained open and the vehicle traveled only a very short distance before stopping again within a matter of mere seconds. The evidence established only that the appellant restrained the complainant, without the requisite “secreting or holding [her] in a place where [she] is not likely to be found” (Penal Law § 135.00[2][a]). Matter of Marco F., 2025 NY Slip Op 01365, Second Dept 3-12-25

Practice Point: Consult this decision for a clear explanation of the elements of “kidnapping.” Briefly restraining a person while unsuccessfully trying to pull that person into a vehicle is not enough.

 

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