People v Rodriguez
2012 NY Slip Op 09155 [101 AD3d 630]
December 27, 2012
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, February 6, 2013


The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
David Rodriguez, Appellant.

[*1] Robert S. Dean, Center for Appellate Litigation, New York (Lisa A. Packard of counsel), for appellant.

Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., District Attorney, New York (Yuval Simchi-Levi of counsel), for respondent.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Daniel McCullough, J.), entered on or about April 25, 2012, which adjudicated defendant a level three sexually violent offender pursuant to the Sex Offender Registration Act (Correction Law art 6-C), unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The court providently exercised its discretion in declining to grant defendant a downward departure (see People v Pettigrew, 14 NY3d 406, 409 [2010]). The mitigating factors he cites were outweighed by the seriousness of the underlying sex crime, which resulted in the death of the victim, as well as by defendant's criminal history and his prison disciplinary infractions. Defendant has not established that his medical condition eliminates any significant risk of reoffense. Concur—Friedman, J.P., Acosta, Renwick, Richter and Román, JJ.