People v Ray
2015 NY Slip Op 00314 [124 AD3d 452]
January 13, 2015
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, March 4, 2015


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 The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Mark Ray, Appellant.

Seymour W. James, Jr., The Legal Aid Society, New York (Natalie Rea of counsel), for appellant.

Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., District Attorney, New York (Andrew E. Seewald of counsel), for respondent.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Robert M. Stolz, J.), entered on or about December 6, 2011, which adjudicated defendant a level two sexually violent offender under the Sex Offender Registration Act (Correction Law art 6-C), unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Although there was an insufficient basis for the court's assessment of 10 points, not assessed by the risk assessment instrument, under the risk factor for nonacceptance of responsibility, defendant remains a level two offender, and we find no basis for a discretionary downward departure (see People v Gillotti, 23 NY3d 841 [2014]). Defendant's completion of drug programs and abstinence from drug use while incarcerated do not warrant a downward departure under the circumstances of the case. Concur—Tom, J.P., Friedman, Acosta, Saxe and Kapnick, JJ.