Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York November 2, 1995 (People v. Mendez)

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Gerald Sheindlin, J.), rendered June 5,1991, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of kidnapping in the first degree, two counts of attempted grand larceny in the second degree, and criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 25 years to life on the kidnapping conviction