People v. Young

—Mercure, J.

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Ulster County (Bruhn, J.), rendered August 11, 1997, upon defendant’s plea of guilty of the crime of murder in the second degree.

In July 1996, defendant and three codefendants kidnapped an individual at gunpoint and drove him to a deserted parking lot, where he was beaten to the point of unconsciousness and then shot to death by one of the codefendants. Indicted for the crimes of murder in the second degree (two counts) and kidnapping in the first degree, defendant was permitted to plead guilty to the crime of felony murder in full…