People v. Chatin

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Goldberg, J.), rendered July 9, 1992, convicting him of kidnapping in the second degree, robbery in the first degree, and robbery in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

There is no merit to the defendant’s contention that the conviction of kidnapping in the second degree should be reversed because of the doctrine of merger. The restraint of the victim at gunpoint for over an hour, after the defendant committed a robbery and was attempting to escape but…