123687P.pdf   08/08/2013  United States  v.  Robert Ford
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  12-3687
   U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota - Sioux Falls   
   [PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Wollman and Murphy, Circuit Judges] 
   Criminal case - Criminal law. Where the jury acquitted defendant of sexual 
   assault and convicted him of kidnapping, the district court's supplemental 
   instruction validly instructed the jury that it could find Ford guilty to 
   kidnapping despite concluding that he was not guilty of sexual abuse; 
   second supplemental instruction adequately elaborated the "unlawfully 
   seized or detained" element of kidnapping under 18 U.S.C.Sec. 1201(a); 
   evidence was sufficient to support defendant's conviction for kidnapping 
   the victim to prevent her from reporting a sexual assault; the verdicts 
   were not inconsistent as the jury could reasonably belief that the victim 
   wanted to report an assault and defendant prevented her from doing so even 
   if the jury was not persuaded that the government proved all of the 
   elements of the assault beyond a reasonable doubt.