| People v Vargas |
| 2016 NY Slip Op 02289 [137 AD3d 669] |
| March 29, 2016 |
| 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 Gilberto Vargas, Appellant. |
Robert S. Dean, Center for Appellate Litigation, New York (Abigail Everett of counsel), for appellant.
Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., District Attorney, New York
(Natalia Bedoya-McGinn of counsel), for respondent.
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Marcy L. Kahn, J.), entered on or about October 24, 2014, which adjudicated defendant a level one sexually violent offender pursuant to the Sex Offender Registration Act (Correction Law art 6-C), unanimously affirmed, without costs.
The court properly designated defendant a sexually violent offender because he was convicted of an enumerated sexually violent offense, and the court lacked discretion to do otherwise (see People v Bullock, 125 AD3d 1 [1st Dept 2014], lv denied 24 NY3d 915 [2015]). Concur—Friedman, J.P., Andrias, Saxe and Richter, JJ.