Los Angeles Criminal Defense

Los Angeles Criminal Defense Attorneys for kidnapping cases when the district attorney has filed felony charges for forcibly, or by any other means of instilling fear, stealing or taking, or holding, detaining, or arresting any person in this state, and (1) carries that person into another country, state, or county, or into another part of the same county or (2) does so for the purpose of intentionally selling that person into slavery or involuntary servitude.

Los Angeles Criminal Defense Attorneys for kidnapping cases when the district attorney has filed felony charges for hiring, persuading, enticing, or the like, any child under 14 to leave the country, state, or county, or into another part of the same county, to commit a lewd act.

Experienced Los Angeles Criminal Defense Attorneys for felony charges of aggravated kidnapping in cases where it is alleged you have:

(1) Kidnaps another person for ransom, reward, or to commit extortion, or to exact from another person any money or valuable thing;

(2) Kidnaps another person with the specific intent to commit robbery;

(3) Kidnaps another person with the specific intent to commit rape, oral copulation, sodomy, or sexual penetration; or

(4) Kidnaps another person during a carjacking.

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Punishment

Los Angeles Criminal Defense Lawyers distinguish between the many different forms of kidnapping. The punishment for simple kidnapping is California state prison for three, five, or eight years.

Kidnapping to commit rape, sexual penetration, oral copulation, or sodomy is punishable by in California state prison for life with possibility of parole.

A person convicted of one of certain sex felony charges, Penal Code 261 (rape), 262 (spousal rape), 264.1 (rape in concert with another), 286 (sodomy by force, violence, duress, menace, fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury, or threat to retaliate in the future against the victim or another person), 288a (oral copulation by force, violence, duress, menace, fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury), 289 (digital penetration), who, for the purpose of committing the offense, kidnapped the victim in violation of Penal Code Section 207 or 209, must receive an additional nine-year California State Prison sentence enhancement.

If you or a loved one has felony charges for kidnapping, contact the Los Angeles Criminal Defense Attorneys at the Criminal Defense Strikeforce.