People v. Brown

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Barbara F. Newman, J. at suppression hearing, plea, and resentencing; Nicholas Iacovetta, J. at initial sentencing), rendered August 28, 2014, as amended December 22, 2014, convicting defendant of promoting prison contraband in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of two to four years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly denied defendant’s motion to suppress contraband recovered in a strip search and visual body cavity inspection conducted while defendant was a pretrial detainee at Rikers Island. The search was…