People v. Bryant

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Chemung County (Monroe, J.), rendered March 16, 1984, upon a verdict convicting defendant of the crime of promoting prison contraband in the first degree.

In August 1983, while defendant was an inmate at Elmira Correctional Facility, Correction Officer Michael Waychuk performed a pat frisk of defendant and found a sharpened metal shank in his pocket. Defendant was charged with promoting prison contraband in the first degree. After a suppression hearing, County Court allowed the People to introduce the shank into evidence at trial. Thereafter,…