People v. Forte

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Alexander Hunter, J.), rendered May 24, 2000, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of rape in the first degree, sodomy in the first degree, and kidnapping in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to three consecutive terms of 15 years, unanimously modified, as a matter of discretion, to the extent of directing that the sentence on the kidnapping conviction be served concurrently with the consecutive sentences on the rape and sodomy convictions, and otherwise affirmed.

The court properly denied defendant’s speedy…