People v. Cannon

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Rena Uviller, J.), rendered February 15, 1994, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of kidnapping in the second degree and robbery in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a persistent violent felony offender, to concurrent terms of 25 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

The merger doctrine does not require dismissal of the kidnapping count because the gunpoint kidnapping, that including handcuffing and abandonment of the victim in an isolated area, "was not a minimal intrusion necessary and integral to another crime” (People v Gonzalez, 80…