People v. Roldan

2023 NY Slip Op 00378

Opinion

People v Roldan (2023 NY Slip Op 00378)

People v Roldan

2023 NY Slip Op 00378

Decided on January 26, 2023

Appellate Division, First Department

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Decided and Entered: January 26, 2023
Before: Friedman, J.P., Moulton, Kennedy, Pitt-Burke, JJ.

Ind. No. 99072/19 Appeal No. 17183 Case No. 2021-00163

[*1]The People of the State of New York, Respondent,

v

Gabriel Roldan, Defendant-Appellant.

Robert S. Dean, Center for Appellate Litigation, New York (Benjamin Rutkin-Becker of counsel), for appellant.

Darcel D. Clark, District Attorney, Bronx (Shane Magnetti of counsel), for respondent.

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Raymond L. Bruce, J.), entered on or about December 8, 2020, which adjudicated defendant a level two sex offender pursuant to the Sex Offender Registration Act (Correction Law art 6-C), unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The court properly exercised its discretion when it declined to grant a downward departure (see People v Gillotti, 23 NY3d 841 [2014]). There were no mitigating factors that were not adequately taken into account by the guidelines, and the record does not establish any basis for a downward departure. We do not find any overassessment of points for defendant's criminal history, particularly where defendant committed the

underlying sex crime against a child shortly after being placed on probation for an assault conviction.THIS CONSTITUTES THE DECISION AND ORDER

OF THE SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST DEPARTMENT.

ENTERED: January 26, 2023