A woman who was charged with kidnapping and attempted theft in 2008 was acquitted by a jury in King County Superior Court.Kulany Roeksbutr, 32, was cleared of all charges following a five-day trial before King County Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Ramsdell in December 2009.
Roeksbutr and a friend, Sunjinda Yahatta, were charged after Yahatta married a 78-year-old man who was in an Issaquah nursing home suffering from dementia. The charges alleged that Yahatta married the man so she could drain his bank account, and that Roeksbutr acted as a witness at the wedding and was involved in the alleged scheme.
The women took the man to the bank after the marriage and tried to withdraw $23,000, according to charging documents. A suspicious teller called police.
Both women were acquitted of all charges after defense attorneys argued that the state had failed to prove the elderly man was incapacitated at the time of the wedding.
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Woman Cleared of 2008 Kidnap Case
Well, that's cute. He was in a nursing home suffering from dementia but they couldn't prove he was incapacitated at the time of the "marriage"?
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