Ex-inmate tells Albany jury correction officer planted weapon on him
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FILE — The James T. Foley United States Courthouse in Albany, N.Y.Times Union
ALBANY — A former state inmate testified Tuesday that a correction officer planted a weapon on him in 2016, costing him five more months in prison and ruining his plans to get married.
Donnesia Brown, 52, told jurors in U.S. District Court he was in his cell in maximum-security Auburn Correctional Facility on Jan. 21, 2016, when Matthew Cornell, joined by another officer, demanded to see his hands. Brown said Cornell walked him to an office, ordered him to strip, handcuffed him to a pipe and then falsely accused him of carrying an eight-inch sharpened toothbrush in his buttocks.