A former Auburn Correctional Facility inmate was sentenced Monday to consecutive life sentences for attacking two prison employees in 2006.
Raymond Clyde was sentenced in Cayuga County Court to 25 years to life for assaulting a female civilian employee and an additional 12 years to life for assaulting a male prison employee, to be served consecutively, according to a news release from the Cayuga County District Attorney's Office.
Clyde also received a sentence of 3.5 to 7 years for first-degree unlawful imprisonment and 2 to 4 years for first-degree promoting prison contraband. Orders of protection were issued for both victims.
At the time of the attack, Clyde was serving a 12.5 to 15 year sentence at the Auburn Correctional Facility for a home-invasion, forcible rape, sodomy and robbery committed in Manhattan in 1995.
He was previously convicted in 1991 of second-degree robbery in New York City and conspiracy to distribute narcotics in federal court.
On July 7, 2006, Clyde jumped the female employee in an isolated corridor near the mess hall at the facility, gagged her with a sock and bound her wrists with a cloth strip torn from a prison-issue bed sheet.
The male employee saw what was happening and stopped the attack. During a struggle, Clyde slammed the employee's head into a concrete wall and then got past a second civilian employee before escaping into the yard.
The employee who initially intervened suffered a concussion.
On Dec. 7, a jury found Clyde guilty of first-degree attempted rape, two counts of second-degree assault, first-degree unlawful imprisonment and first-degree promoting prison contraband.
The trial court then ordered the jury's verdict set aside on the top count of attempted rape.
The district attorney's office is appealing that decision.
Clyde also received a sentence of 3.5 to 7 years for first-degree unlawful imprisonment and 2 to 4 years for first-degree promoting prison contraband. Orders of protection were issued for both victims.
At the time of the attack, Clyde was serving a 12.5 to 15 year sentence at the Auburn Correctional Facility for a home-invasion, forcible rape, sodomy and robbery committed in Manhattan in 1995.
He was previously convicted in 1991 of second-degree robbery in New York City and conspiracy to distribute narcotics in federal court.
On July 7, 2006, Clyde jumped the female employee in an isolated corridor near the mess hall at the facility, gagged her with a sock and bound her wrists with a cloth strip torn from a prison-issue bed sheet.
The male employee saw what was happening and stopped the attack. During a struggle, Clyde slammed the employee's head into a concrete wall and then got past a second civilian employee before escaping into the yard.
The employee who initially intervened suffered a concussion.
On Dec. 7, a jury found Clyde guilty of first-degree attempted rape, two counts of second-degree assault, first-degree unlawful imprisonment and first-degree promoting prison contraband.
The trial court then ordered the jury's verdict set aside on the top count of attempted rape.
The district attorney's office is appealing that decision.
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