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Court: Navajo man guilty of assault can’t be convicted of kidnapping, too

WASHINGTON – A federal appeals court ruled that a Navajo man who held his girlfriend while he assaulted her cannot also be convicted of kidnapping, saying such an expansion of kidnapping would lead to a “steroidal version” of assault laws. The ruling Thursday by a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel let stand the […]