People v. Sidney

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Chemung County (Hayden, J.), rendered May 11, 2007, upon a verdict convicting defendant of the crime of promoting prison contraband in the first degree.

Defendant, an inmate at the Elmira Correctional Facility in Chemung County, was charged with promoting prison contraband in the first degree after he was found to be in possession of a weapon. Following a jury trial, defendant was convicted as charged and thereafter sentenced, as a second felony offender, to 3Va to 7 years in prison, to run consecutively to the sentence that he is currently…