PEOPLE EX REL. GOVAN v. BENNETT


304 A.D.2d 996 (2003)

758 N.Y.S.2d 701

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK ex rel. ISAAC GOVAN, Appellant, v. FLOYD BENNETT, as Superintendent of Elmira Correctional Facility, Respondent.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Third Department.

Decided April 17, 2003.


Lahtinen, J.

Following a jury trial, petitioner was convicted of kidnapping in the second degree and criminal contempt in the first degree and was sentenced, respectively, to concurrent prison terms of 10½ years and four years. He appealed arguing, inter alia, that there was insufficient evidence to support the kidnapping charge because he did not possess a deadly weapon. This Court affirmed petitioner's conviction (People v Govan, 268...

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