Opinion
05-24-2016
The PEOPLE of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Jaime CORTES, Defendant–Appellant.
Seymour W. James, Jr., The Legal Aid Society, New York (Adrienne M. Gantt of counsel), for appellant. Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., District Attorney, New York (Jeffrey A. Wojcik of counsel), for respondent.
Seymour W. James, Jr., The Legal Aid Society, New York (Adrienne M. Gantt of counsel), for appellant.
Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., District Attorney, New York (Jeffrey A. Wojcik of counsel), for respondent.
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Thomas Farber, J.), entered on or about September 11, 2013, 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 in granting an upward departure based on egregious conduct that was not adequately accounted for in the risk assessment instrument, and that outweighed the mitigating factors cited by defendant (see People v. Gillotti, 23 N.Y.3d 841, 994 N.Y.S.2d 1, 18 N.E.3d 701 [2014] ). To the extent defendant is challenging the factual predicate for the departure, that claim is unpreserved and without merit (see e.g. People v. Irizarry, 124 A.D.3d 429, 998 N.Y.S.2d 379 [1st Dept. 2015], lv. denied 25 N.Y.3d 907, 10 N.Y.S.3d 527, 32 N.E.3d 964 [2015] ).
SWEENY, J.P., RENWICK, MOSKOWITZ, KAPNICK, GESMER, JJ., concur.