People v. Gomez-Kadawid

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Clinton County (McGill, J.), rendered November 7, 2007, upon a verdict convicting defendant of the crimes of promoting prison contraband in the first degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree.

When correction officers at a state prison frisked defendant, an inmate, they discovered three packets of heroin hidden in an altered flap of the pants that he was wearing. After trial, he was convicted of promoting prison contraband in the first degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh…