People v. Palmer

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Rensselaer County (Aison, J.), rendered December 20, 1991, upon a verdict convicting defendant of the crimes of obstructing governmental administration in the second degree and menacing.

On January 27, 1989, while incarcerated at the Rensselaer County Jail awaiting transfer to State prison after a felony conviction, defendant was involved in an argument with another inmate necessitating the intervention of correction officers. That intervention resulted in a visual search of the cells for contraband. When a correction officer entered defendant’s…