Opinion
15314 Ind. No. 4837/99 Case No. 2021–00154
02-15-2022
The PEOPLE of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Juan PEREZ, Defendant–Appellant.
Robert S. Dean, Center for Appellate Litigation, New York (Hunter Haney of counsel), for appellant. Darcel D. Clark, District Attorney, Bronx (Diana J. Lewis of counsel), for respondent.
Robert S. Dean, Center for Appellate Litigation, New York (Hunter Haney of counsel), for appellant.
Darcel D. Clark, District Attorney, Bronx (Diana J. Lewis of counsel), for respondent.
Kern, J.P., Oing, Singh, Moulton, Gonza´lez, JJ.
Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Raymond L. Bruce, J.), entered on or about December 4, 2020, which adjudicated defendant a level three sexually violent predicate offender pursuant to the Sex Offender Registration Act (Correction Law art 6–C), unanimously affirmed, without costs.
The court providently exercised its discretion in declining to grant a downward departure (see People v. Gillotti, 23 N.Y.3d 841, 861, 994 N.Y.S.2d 1, 18 N.E.3d 701 [2014] ). Defendant did not establish that his medical condition would significantly reduce his risk of reoffense. The other mitigating factors identified by defendant were unexceptional, and were sufficiently taken into account by the risk assessment instrument or outweighed by the seriousness of the offense and defendant's criminal history. In particular, defendant displayed a grave risk of reoffense against children by committing the underlying course of sexual conduct against a five-year-old child after already having been convicted and incarcerated for sex crimes against a series of other children.