People v Gonell
2015 NY Slip Op 01572 [125 AD3d 545]
February 24, 2015
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, April 1, 2015


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 The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Otto Gonell, Appellant.

Robert S. Dean, Center for Appellate Litigation, New York (Abigail Everett of counsel), for appellant.

Robert T. Johnson, District Attorney, Bronx (William Terrell III of counsel), for respondent.

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Seth L. Marvin, J.), entered on or about November 27, 2013, which adjudicated defendant a level two sexual offender pursuant to the Sex Offender Registration Act (Correction Law art 6-C), unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The court properly exercised its discretion when it declined to grant a downward departure (see People v Gillotti, 23 NY3d 841 [2014]). The mitigating factors cited by defendant did not warrant such a departure, given the egregious circumstances of the underlying crime against a 13-year-old child and defendant's overall criminal record, including his history of absconding and remaining a fugitive. Concur—Tom, J.P., Andrias, Richter and Gische, JJ.