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,
The People laid sufficient foundation, through a police witness, for admission of a photograph of defendant standing next to a measuring...
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