People v. Velez

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Ivan Warner, J.), rendered April 30, 1992, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of murder in the second degree (two counts), kidnapping in the first degree, and robbery in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 25 years to life on the murder and kidnapping charges and 12 Vi to 25 years on the robbery charge, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s argument that the merger doctrine compels *259dismissal of his convictions for kidnapping in the first degree and felony murder based upon kidnapping is unpreserved…