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I really dislike "stacked" charges. Maybe that's the best way to differentiate between "a burglary", "a burglary where an innocent person was involved", "a burglary where 3 innocent people were involved," and "a burglary where 3 innocent people were involved and made to do stuff beyond 'getting robbed'".

But assuming "equal" charges, is involving three people 3x as bad as involving one? Is "forcing people to move" 2x as bad as just robbing them?

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"... Two clerks were in the store, not just one. Lima-Marin and Clifton brought them both into a back room, forcing one onto the floor and the other to open the safe. “They put a gun to the back of my head and said, ‘This is where you’re going to die,’” one of the employees, Shane Ashurst, later recalled."

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/04/07/unfreed

A bit more than simply asking them to move to another room.

The "mov[ing] from one part of a store to another" was how the article characterized the kidnapping charge. I would imagine that forcing someone to the floor and threatening them with a gun would be part of the aggravated assault charge. Otherwise, what's the difference?

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