![]() ![]() The court also found that there was more than sufficient evidence to convict Golder on the other counts. "There is no reasonable possibility that the jury was misled in reaching its verdict." "We conclude that the restraint that occurred after the defendant took the jewelry from the kitchen closet had its own independent criminal significance," the ruling states. Golder's public defender argued it was part of the burglary when he tied up a victim before stealing her car to get away with stolen jewelry. Golder argued jurors were not made aware of a 2008 landmark case that reversed a kidnapping conviction in a sexual assault case after finding that the restraint action was part of the underlying sexual assault and thus not a separate crime. Judges found that when Golder tied up a woman who confronted him in the middle of a Greenwich burglary, she was "restrained to an extent exceeding that which was necessary to accomplish or to complete the other crime," states the decision. ![]() In their decision, the appellate court judges examined the specific issue of whether Golder's kidnapping conviction was sound based on a 2008 state Supreme Court ruling that reinterpreted the statute. In 2008, he was acquitted on four charges in connection with Greenwich burglaries in November 1996 and February 1997. The career criminal was believed to have burglarized many other homes throughout the area using the hallmark of stealing jewelry while residents were at home and alarms were off. ![]() Dinnertime bandit sends handwritten letter to state Supreme Court ![]()
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