AUBURN -- After a back and forth legal battle, a former inmate at Auburn Correctional Facility is getting the maximum sentence for a rape case dating back to 2006.
Cayuga County Prosecutors say Raymond Clyde attacked a female employee at the prison, gagged, bound, and tried to rape her.
Clyde was convicted on several counts in the case, but they were thrown out. An attempted rape charge was dismissed based on was prosecutors say was "allegedly legally insufficient evidence." The rest were thrown out because Clyde was improperly forced to wear leg shackles while in the courtroom.
Late last year, the Court of Appeals called the problem with the shackles a "harmless error" and reinstated the convictions based on what justices considered "overwhelming evidence of guilt." The Court also decided there was enough evidence to support the attempted rape conviction.
Wednesday, Clyde was sentenced to the maximum of 25 years to life in prison.
Clyde is considered a persistent violent felon. He was originally at Auburn Correctional Facility after brutally raping and robbing a woman in Manhattan in 1996.
