People v. Verley

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Chemung County (Hayden, J.), rendered January 13, 2012, 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.

*1301Defendant, an inmate at Elmira Correctional Facility, was found unresponsive on the floor of his cell from an apparent drug overdose. When a search of his cell revealed two small balloons filled with heroin, he was charged with promoting prison contraband in the first degree and criminal possession of a controlled…