In State v. Jenkins, 198 Conn. 671, 504 A.2d 1053 (1986), the defendant challenged the constitutionality of the kidnapping sentencing scheme, which provided a mandatory minimum of ten years for kidnapping in the first degree, but provided a mandatory minimum of only one year for kidnapping in the first degree with a firearm. Id., at 674-76. The court specifically noted that kidnapping in the first degree was a lesser offense included within kidnapping in the first degree with a firearm. Further, the court concluded that there clearly was a legislative error when the legislature provided a more serious penalty for a less serious crime. The court acknowledged that the discrepancy implicated the equal protection clause and could not overcome rational basis analysis because "it is not rational and sensible to impose a lesser term of mandatory imprisonment on one convicted of kidnapping with the use of a firearm than on one convicted for a similar crime not involving a firearm." Id., at 679-80. Construing the statutes together and strictly against the state, the court applied the one year mandatory minimum sentence for kidnapping in the first degree with a firearm to kidnapping in the first degree without a firearm. Id., at 680. In Jenkins, the rationale was that a kidnapping involving the use of a firearm had to be a more serious crime than a kidnapping without the use of a firearm.