People v Baez
2010 NY Slip Op 07070 [77 AD3d 406]
October 5, 2010
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, December 15, 2010


The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Daniel Baez, Appellant.

[*1] Steven Banks, The Legal Aid Society, New York (Susan Epstein of counsel), for appellant.

Robert T. Johnson, District Attorney, Bronx (Bari L. Kamlet of counsel), for respondent.

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Darcel D. Clark, J.), entered on or about August 14, 2007, which adjudicated defendant a level two sex offender pursuant to the Sex Offender Registration Act (Correction Law art 6-C), unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Although defendant challenges a particular 15-point assessment, even without that assessment he would remain a level two offender, and we find no basis for a discretionary downward departure from defendant's presumptive risk level (see People v Mingo, 12 NY3d 563, 568 n 2 [2009]; People v Johnson, 11 NY3d 416, 421 [2008]). The mitigating circumstances cited by defendant were adequately taken into account by the risk assessment instrument. Concur—Saxe, J.P., Nardelli, McGuire, Freedman and Abdus-Salaam, JJ.