People v Irlanda
2022 NY Slip Op 00735 [202 AD3d 446]
February 3, 2022
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, March 30, 2022


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 The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Christopher Irlanda, Appellant.

Robert S. Dean, Center for Appellate Litigation, New York (Benjamin Rutkin-Becker of counsel), for appellant.

Darcel D. Clark, District Attorney, Bronx (Morgan Namian of counsel), for respondent.

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Raymond L. Bruce, J.), entered on or about October 30, 2020, which adjudicated defendant a level two sex offender pursuant to the Sex Offender Registration Act (Correction Law art 6-C), unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The court providently exercised its discretion when it declined to grant a downward departure (see People v Gillotti, 23 NY3d 841 [2014]). The mitigating factors cited by defendant were adequately taken into account by the guidelines or were outweighed by the seriousness of the underlying offense against a child, as well as defendant's extensive criminal history (see People v Ramos, 199 AD3d 423 [1st Dept 2021]). "Furthermore, defendant has provided little evidence of his claimed mitigating factors that would corroborate assertions by himself or his attorney" (id. at 424). Although defendant was subject to a lengthy period of probation, we do not find that to be a significant mitigating factor, particularly because defendant committed the underlying sex crime while he was already on probation from a prior conviction (see People v Lewis, 143 AD3d 604 [1st Dept 2016], lv denied 28 NY3d 916 [2017]). Concur—Manzanet-Daniels, J.P., Webber, Oing, Mendez, Higgitt, JJ.