People v. Cardona

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Westchester County (Cowhey, J.), rendered July 28, 1992, convicting him of kidnapping in the second degree, rape in the first degree (five counts), sodomy in the first degree (four counts), and sexual *603abuse in the first degree (four counts), upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant claims that his convictions for kidnapping in the second degree are barred by the judicially created merger doctrine which precludes a conviction for kidnapping based on acts which are integrally…