Eid

Defendants were charged with kidnapping for ransom, which is punishable by life in prison. The jury instead convicted each of them of two lesser included offenses — felony attempted extortion and misdemeanor false imprisonment — which resulted in a sentence of four and a half years in custody. The Court of Appeal held that each defendant could be convicted of only one lesser included offense and struck the convictions for misdemeanor false imprisonment, thus reducing each defendant’s sentence to two and a half years. As explained below, defendants were properly convicted of both lesser included offenses. Accordingly, we reverse the Court of Appeal.

I.

Defendants Reynaldo Junior Bid and Alaor Docarmo Oliveira were convicted in previous proceedings of kidnapping for ransom, but their convictions were reversed for instructional error. (People v. Eid (2010) 187 Cal.App.4th 859 [ 114 Cal.Rptr.3d 520 ]; People v. Oliveira (Aug. 19, 2010, G042004) [nonpub. opn.].) Defendants were then charged in an amended information in the present case with two counts of kidnapping for ransom of Ana and logo Ribeiro. (Pen. Code, § 209, subd. (a); all undesignated statutory references are to…