People v. Ferrer

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (William Wallace, J.), rendered July 8, 1991, convicting defendant after a jury trial, of kidnapping in the first degree, and sentencing him as a second felony offender to a term of 25 years to life, unanimously modified, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice to the extent of reducing the sentence to a term of 15 years to life, and otherwise affirmed.

Defendant and his companions kidnapped the victim, mistaking him for another, and held him for a period of 2 days, while demanding payment of a ransom by the victim’s family. During the…