People v. Mena

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Gregory Carro, J., on motions; Charles H. Solomon, J., at hearing; Richard D. Carruthers, J, at jury trial and sentence), rendered December 8, 2003, convicting defendant of two counts of kidnapping in the first degree and sentencing him to concurrent terms of 15 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

The verdict was based on legally sufficient evidence and was not against the weight of the evidence. There was a lengthy chain of circumstantial proof connecting defendant with the kidnapping, including, among other things, testimony that defendant, who was…