Defendant, an inmate at Elmira Correctional Facility, was charged with first degree promoting prison contraband based upon an incident in which correction officers discovered him brandishing a homemade knife. Defendant essentially admitted this at the trial, but offered evidence in an attempt to justify such conduct. The uncontradicted testimony indicated that one particular inmate had on several occasions made homosexual advances toward defendant. These advances were refused...
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