People v. Riley

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Chemung County (Danaher, Jr., J.), rendered June 21, 1993, upon a verdict convicting defendant of the crime of promoting prison contraband in the first degree.

After a jury trial, defendant was convicted of promoting prison contraband in the first degree stemming from an incident in which he was observed passing a small, shiny metal object, which turned out to be a razor blade, to a fellow inmate. He was sentenced, as a second felony offender, to a term of 3 to 6 years in prison to be served consecutive to his current sentence. Initially, inasmuch…