Opinion
No. 1850.
December 22, 2009.
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Laura A. Ward, J.), entered October 14, 2008, which adjudicated defendant a level three sex offender and a sexually violent offender pursuant to the Sex Offender Registration Act (Correction Law art 6-C), unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Steven Banks, The Legal Aid Society, New York (Michael C. Taglieri of counsel), for appellant.
Robert M. Morgenthau, District Attorney, New York (Melissa Pennington of counsel), for respondent.
Before: Sweeny, J.P., Catterson, Renwick, Freedman and Abdus-Salaam, JJ.
The People met their burden of establishing, by clear and convincing evidence, risk factors bearing a sufficient total point score to support a level three sex offender adjudication. Regardless of whether defendant's correct point score is 120, as he contends, or 175, as contended by the People, there is no basis for a discretionary downward departure, particularly in light of defendant's pattern of violent sexual offenses ( see generally People v Guaman, 8 AD3d 545).