People v. Riley

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Chemung County (Buckley, J.), rendered April 2, 2001, convicting defendant upon his plea of guilty of the crime of attempted promoting prison contraband in the first degree.

Defendant was found with a sharpened plexiglass shank in his shoe while confined at a state correctional facility and was charged with promoting prison contraband in the first degree. He subsequently pleaded guilty to attempted promoting prison contraband in the first degree and was sentenced as a second felony offender to a prison term of IV2 to 3 years to run consecutive with…