People v. Mckanney

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Chemung County (Hayden, J.), rendered August 24, 2007, *1050convicting defendant upon his plea of guilty of the crime of attempted promoting prison contraband in the first degree.

Defendant contends that it was reversible error not to conduct a hearing regarding his motion challenging, as an illegal search, an X ray of his pelvis at the maximum security prison where he was incarcerated. Based upon anonymous tips from an inmate informant indicating that defendant had secreted a weapon in his rectal cavity, facility personnel conducted a strip search and…