Reasonable doubt.![]()
Agreeing w you ^. Yes, my ex. re Mr S inviting DDW to attend auction (imagination going overboard & overtime) was beyond any doubt I could find reasonable.
Azz-uming JW merely complied w Mr S's request to pick up & deliver $ and testifies to that effect, there's room for def. to question credibility and claim no delivery of ransom $. If jury were to buy it, fortunately there was still $$$ & m/o's in convoy, suggesting ransom was paid, and that $ came from ransom (not DDW's piggy bank or convoy member's lottery tix).
IIUC statute does not require ransom payment, as an element of crime, just requires that in confining Mr S, that DDW
had "intent to hold or detain such individual for ransom or reward or otherwise."
What a tragedy.