People v. Guzman

Judgment of the Supreme Court, Bronx County (Bernard H. Jackson, J.), rendered January 12, 1989, which convicted defendant of kidnapping in the first degree and assault in the second degree and sentenced him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of imprisonment of from 15 years to life on the kidnapping conviction and 2 to 4 years on the assault conviction, is modified, on the law, the facts and as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, to reverse the conviction of kidnapping in the first degree and to remand for a new trial on that count, and otherwise affirmed.

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