Koonce v. Commonwealth

DYCHE, Judge.

Robert Koonce entered a conditional plea of guilty pursuant to RCr 8.09 to Promoting Contraband in the First Degree, KRS 520.050. In exchange for his plea, the concomitant charge for Persistent Felony Offender in the First degree, KRS 532.080(3), was dismissed, and Koonce was sentenced to one year in the penitentiary.

Koonce, an inmate at the Kentucky State Reformatory at LaGrange, had been observed concealing something under the mattress in his cell. Upon inspection a guard found the tip of a rubber glove *74which contained a small quantity of marijuana; an additional marijuana…