| People v Grabowski |
| 2016 NY Slip Op 05912 |
| Decided on August 31, 2016 |
| Appellate Division, Second Department |
| Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. |
| This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports. |
Decided on August 31, 2016 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department
CHERYL E. CHAMBERS, J.P.
THOMAS A. DICKERSON
COLLEEN D. DUFFY
VALERIE BRATHWAITE NELSON, JJ.
2015-04747
v
Bogdan Grabowski, appellant.
Lynn W. L. Fahey, New York, NY (Jenin Younes of counsel), for appellant.
Kenneth P. Thompson, District Attorney, Brooklyn, NY (Leonard Joblove, Morgan J. Dennehy, and Daniel Berman of counsel), for respondent.
DECISION & ORDER
Appeal by the defendant from an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Foley, J.), dated May 11, 2015, which, after a hearing, designated him a level two sex offender pursuant to Correction Law article 6-C.
ORDERED that the order is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.
In determining a defendant's risk level pursuant to the Sex Offender Registration Act (Correction Law art 6-C), a downward departure from a sex offender's presumptive risk level generally is warranted only where there exists a mitigating factor of a kind, or to a degree, that is not otherwise adequately taken into account by the Sex Offender Registration Act: Risk Assessment Guidelines and Commentary (2006) (hereinafter the Guidelines) (see People v Gillotti, 23 NY3d 841, 861; People v Sanchez, 138 AD3d 946; People v Azeez, 138 AD3d 945).
Here, nearly all of the mitigating circumstances identified by the defendant were adequately taken into account by the Guidelines (see People v DeDona, 102 AD3d 58, 71; People v Riverso, 96 AD3d 1533, 1534). Moreover, to the extent the defendant established certain facts in support of mitigating factors not adequately taken into account by the Guidelines, the Supreme Court providently exercised its discretion in denying the defendant's request for a downward departure, and thus, properly designated him a level two sex offender (see People v Gillotti, 23 NY3d at 861).
CHAMBERS, J.P., DICKERSON, DUFFY and BRATHWAITE NELSON, JJ., concur.
ENTER:Aprilanne Agostino
Clerk of the Court