2011 Wisconsin Code
Chapter 940. Crimes against life and bodily security.
940.305 Taking hostages.

940.305

940.305 Taking hostages.

940.305(1)

(1) Except as provided in sub. (2), whoever by force or threat of imminent force seizes, confines or restrains a person without the person's consent and with the intent to use the person as a hostage in order to influence a person to perform or not to perform some action demanded by the actor is guilty of a Class B felony.

940.305(2)

(2) Whoever commits a violation specified under sub. (1) is guilty of a Class C felony if, before the time of the actor's arrest, each person who is held as a hostage is released without bodily harm.

940.305 - ANNOT.

History: 1979 c. 118; 1993 a. 194; 2001 a. 109.

940.305 - ANNOT.

The constitutionality of s. 940.305 is upheld. State v. Bertrand, 162 Wis. 2d 411, 469 N.W.2d 873 (Ct. App. 1991).