| People v Smalls |
| 2014 NY Slip Op 06531 [120 AD3d 1145] |
| September 30, 2014 |
| Appellate Division, First Department |
| Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. |
| The People of the State of New York,
Respondent, v Joseph Smalls, Appellant. |
Robert S. Dean, Center for Appellate Litigation, New York (Abigail Everett of counsel), for appellant.
Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., District Attorney, New York (Allen J. Vickey of counsel), for respondent.
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Cassandra M. Mullen, J.), entered on or about April 2, 2012, which adjudicated defendant a level three sexually violent offender under the Sex Offender Registration Act (Correction Law art 6-C), unanimously affirmed, without costs.
The court properly applied the presumptive override for a prior felony sex crime conviction, and properly exercised its discretion in denying a downward departure. The underlying offense is defendant's third felony sex crime conviction. Defendant committed the underlying crime after having already been adjudicated a level three sex offender (see People v Carter, 114 AD3d 592 [1st Dept 2014]). The mitigating factors cited by defendant were outweighed by his criminal record, which demonstrates a dangerous propensity to commit sex crimes (see e.g. People v Jamison, 107 AD3d 531 [1st Dept 2013], lv denied 22 NY3d 852 [2013]; People v Poole, 105 AD3d 654 [1st Dept 2013], lv denied 21 NY3d 863 [2013]), and also by his failure to advance to the second level of the sex offender treatment program. Concur—Mazzarelli, J.P., Andrias, Moskowitz, Manzanet-Daniels and Clark, JJ.