

People v Villalona (2017 NY Slip Op 04870)





People v Villalona


2017 NY Slip Op 04870


Decided on June 14, 2017


Appellate Division, Second Department


Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.


This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports.



Decided on June 14, 2017
SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department

WILLIAM F. MASTRO, J.P.
MARK C. DILLON
SHERI S. ROMAN
VALERIE BRATHWAITE NELSON, JJ.


2016-07628

[*1]People of State of New York, respondent,
vCarlos M. Villalona, appellant.


Clare J. Degnan, White Plains, NY (Salvatore A. Gaetani of counsel), for appellant.
Anthony A. Scarpino, Jr., District Attorney, White Plains, NY (Wayne A. Williams and Laurie G. Sapakoff of counsel), for respondent.

DECISION & ORDER
Appeal by the defendant from an order of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Cacace, J.), entered July 7, 2016, which, after a hearing, designated him a level two sex offender pursuant to Correction Law article 6-C.
ORDERED that the order is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.
Contrary to the defendant's contention, the Supreme Court did not improvidently exercise its discretion in granting the People's application for an upward departure from the presumptive risk level one designation to risk level two. The People demonstrated by clear and convincing evidence that there were aggravating factors not adequately taken into account by the Sex Offender Registration Act guidelines (see Correction Law § 168-l[5]; Sex Offender Registration Act: Risk Assessment Guidelines and Commentary at 4 [2006]). Furthermore, it cannot be said that the court improvidently exercised its discretion in concluding that the totality of the circumstances warranted a departure to avoid an under-assessment of the defendant's dangerousness and risk of sexual recidivism (see People v Gillotti, 23 NY3d 841, 861; People v Johnson, 11 NY3d 416, 421).
MASTRO, J.P., DILLON, ROMAN and BRATHWAITE NELSON, JJ., concur.
ENTER:
Aprilanne Agostino
Clerk of the Court


