People v Hemphill
2011 NY Slip Op 08488 [89 AD3d 607]
November 22, 2011
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, January 4th, 2012


The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Anthony Hemphill, Appellant.

—[*1] Robert S. Dean, Center for Appellate Litigation, New York (Claudia S. Trupp of counsel), for appellant.

Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., District Attorney, New York (Naomi C. Reed of counsel), for respondent.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Daniel P. FitzGerald, J.), entered on or about May 28, 2010, which adjudicated defendant a level two sex offender under the Sex Offender Registration Act (Correction Law art 6-C), unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The court properly exercised its discretion in declining to grant defendant a downward departure from his presumptive risk level (see People v Mingo, 12 NY3d 563, 568 n 2 [2009]; People v Johnson, 11 NY3d 416, 421 [2008]). The underlying pattern of criminal conduct, consisting of three separate predatory sexual attacks, was extremely serious. While defendant asserts he is unlikely to repeat such conduct, we find his contentions unpersuasive. Concur—Moskowitz, J.P., Renwick, DeGrasse, Abdus-Salaam and RomÁn, JJ.