Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York November 15, 1999 (People v. Torres)

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Demakos, J.), rendered December 10, 1996, convicting him of murder in the second degree (three counts), kidnapping in the first degree (two counts), and arson in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and sentencing him to indeterminate terms of 25 years to life imprisonment for each of his convictions for murder in