Date: 09-22-2016

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Case Number: 401-80513-2015

Judge: Mark Rusch

Court: District Court, Collin County, Texas

Plaintiff's Attorney: Not Available

Defendant's Attorney: Keith Gore

Description: Plano, TX - Man Convicted of Kidnapping Woman Who Has Never Been Found

The State of Texas charged Enrique Arochi with first-degree aggravated kidnapping claiming that he kidnapped Christina Morris who was last seen with Arochi on August 30, 2014 walking into a parking garage with the Defendant. The State claimed that the cell phones belonging to the missing woman and the defendant pinged together for a time and that her DNA was found in the trunk of his car.

Defendant denied that he had anything to do with the disappearance of the woman.

Texas penal code section 20.04 provides:

Sec. 20.04. AGGRAVATED KIDNAPPING. (a) A person commits an offense if he intentionally or knowingly abducts another person with the intent to:

(1) hold him for ransom or reward;

(2) use him as a shield or hostage;

(3) facilitate the commission of a felony or the flight after the attempt or commission of a felony;

(4) inflict bodily injury on him or violate or abuse him sexually;

(5) terrorize him or a third person; or

(6) interfere with the performance of any governmental or political function.

(b) A person commits an offense if the person intentionally or knowingly abducts another person and uses or exhibits a deadly weapon during the commission of the offense.

(c) Except as provided by Subsection (d), an offense under this section is a felony of the first degree.

(d) At the punishment stage of a trial, the defendant may raise the issue as to whether he voluntarily released the victim in a safe place. If the defendant proves the issue in the affirmative by a preponderance of the evidence, the offense is a felony of the second degree.

Outcome: Guilty after 17 hours of deliberation.

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