People v. Respress

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Chemung County (Hayden, J.), rendered September 8, 2014, upon a verdict convicting defendant of the crime of promoting prison contraband in the first degree.

On June 20, 2013, an investigator with the Inspector General’s Narcotics Unit stopped a visitor in the lobby of the Elmira Correctional Facility and escorted her to a nearby office. After ascertaining that she had come to the facility to visit defendant, an inmate, the investigator questioned the visitor as to whether she had anything illegal on her person. The visitor responded affirmatively,…