People v. Ryan

2018 NY Slip Op 98

• Court: Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
• Decided: January 9, 2018
• Docket: 5388 99002/16
• Status: Published

Opinion

People v Ryan (2018 NY Slip Op 00098)

People v Ryan

2018 NY Slip Op 00098

Decided on January 9, 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 January 9, 2018
Friedman, J.P., Richter, Gesmer, Kern, Moulton, JJ.

5388 99002/16

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

v

Daryl Ryan, Defendant-Appellant.

Robert S. Dean, Center for Appellate Litigation, New York (Abigail Everett 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 September 28, 2016, 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 record supports the court's discretionary upward departure based on clear and convincing evidence establishing the existence of aggravating factors not adequately accounted for by the risk assessment instrument (see People v Gillotti, 23 NY3d 841, 861—862 [2014]; People v Velasquez, 143 AD3d 583 [1st Dept 2016], lv denied 28 NY3d 914 [2017]). The court reasonably concluded that an increased likelihood of reoffense, not captured in the risk assessment instrument, was indicated by, among other things, the large number of child pornography images and videos possessed by defendant, the particularly disturbing nature of some of the material, the duration of defendant's retention of the material, and his trading of the material with others. The mitigating factors cited by defendant were accounted for in the risk assessment instrument or were outweighed by the seriousness of his conduct.

THIS CONSTITUTES THE DECISION AND ORDER

OF THE SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST DEPARTMENT.

ENTERED: JANUARY 9, 2018

CLERK