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kidnapping conviction appropriate where victim was locked in back room
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No. 98-87.
Opinion filed September 11, 1998. JULY TERM 1998.
Appeal from the Circuit Court for St. Johns County, Richard G. Weinberg, Judge.
James B. Gibson, Public Defender, and Rebecca M. Becker, Assistant Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for Appellant.
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Steven J. Guardiano, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellee.
The evidence was sufficient to convict the defendant on the charge of kidnapping where defendant locked the motel clerk in a back room prior to leaving the motel after committing the robbery. See Berry v. State, 668 So.2d 967, 969 (Fla. 1996); Pitts v. State, 710 So.2d 62 (Fla. 3d DCA 1998).
AFFIRMED.
SHARP, W., ANTOON, J.J., and ORFINGER, M., Sr. Judge, concur.