Matter of State of New York v Powell
2012 NY Slip Op 02057 [93 AD3d 539]
March 20, 2012
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, April 25, 2012


In the Matter of State of New York, Respondent,
v
Bobby Powell, Appellant.

[*1] Marvin Bernstein, Mental Hygiene Legal Service, New York (Sadie Zea Ishee of counsel), for appellant.

Eric T. Schneiderman, Attorney General, New York (Patrick J. Walsh of counsel), for respondent.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Daniel FitzGerald, J.), entered on or about October 22, 2010, which, in a proceeding pursuant to Mental Hygiene Law article 10, upon a jury finding of mental abnormality, committed respondent to a secure treatment facility, and order, same court and Justice, entered on or about June 17, 2011, denying respondent's motion for a new trial in the interests of justice, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Respondent was not deprived of due process, and a new trial is not warranted in the interests of justice. Although petitioner's psychologist provided erroneous testimony regarding respondent's score on the Static-99 risk assessment instrument, there was other overwhelming evidence of mental abnormality presented at trial, including the admission of respondent's own expert that respondent was predisposed to commit sex offenses. Concur—Mazzarelli, J.P., Saxe, Renwick, Richter and Abdus-Salaam, JJ.