People v. Bloomfield

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Chemung County (Danaher, Jr., J.), rendered May 19, 1988, upon a verdict convicting defendant of the crime of assault in the second degree.

Defendant, an inmate at Elmira Correctional Facility in Chemung County, was tried for assaulting a correction officer who had entered defendant’s prison cell in order to extinguish a fire. Following a jury trial, defendant was found guilty .of assault in the second degree and sentenced as a second felony offender to an indeterminate term of SVi to 7 years’ imprisonment, to be served consecutively with the…