People v. Missrie

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (James Yates, J.), rendered December 2, 1999, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of conspiracy in the second degree and attempted kidnaping in the first degree, and sentencing him to concurrent terms of from 8 to 16 years, unanimously reversed, on the law, and the matter remanded for a new trial.

Defendant was tried on charges of conspiracy in the second degree and attempted kidnaping in the first degree stemming from conversations he had with an informant for the District Attorney’s office about kidnaping the widow of one Victor Azrak to induce…