People v. Williams

2016 NY Slip Op 7842, 144 A.D.3d 548, 40 N.Y.S.3d 899

Opinion

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Raymond L. Bruce, J.), entered March 25, 2015, which adjudicated defendant a level two sexually violent offender pursuant to the Sex Offender Registration Act (Correction Law art 6-C), unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The court properly assessed 30 points for defendant’s prior violent felony conviction, notwithstanding its remoteness in time (see People v Oginski, 35 AD3d 952, 953 [3d Dept 2006]). In any event, even without those points defendant remains a level two offender, and we find no basis for a downward departure (see generally People v Gillotti, 23 NY3d 841 [2014]). The egregiousness of the underlying crime against a child, and the evidence of predatory sexual misconduct against other children, outweigh the mitigating factors cited by defendant.

Concur—Mazzarelli, J.P., Sweeny, Andrias, Webber and Gesmer, JJ.