

People v Santiago (2018 NY Slip Op 01547)





People v Santiago


2018 NY Slip Op 01547


Decided on March 8, 2018


Appellate Division, First 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 March 8, 2018

Renwick, J.P., Richter, Andrias, Kapnick, Kahn, JJ.


5932 2066/75

[*1]The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
vArsenio Santiago, Defendant-Appellant.


Seymour W. James, Jr., The Legal Aid Society, New York (Nancy E. Little of counsel), for appellant.
Darcel D. Clark, District Attorney, Bronx (Kristian D. Amundsen of counsel), for respondent.

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Efrain Alvarado, J.), entered on or about March 3, 2017, which adjudicated defendant a risk level three sexually violent 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 NY3d 841, 861 [2014]). The mitigating factors cited by defendant were adequately accounted for by the risk assessment instrument, or
were outweighed by the seriousness of the underlying offenses, in which defendant brutally attacked and raped two women.
THIS CONSTITUTES THE DECISION AND ORDER
OF THE SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST DEPARTMENT.
ENTERED: MARCH 8, 2018
CLERK


