People v Cherry
2009 NY Slip Op 01841 [60 AD3d 484]
March 12, 2009
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, May 6, 2009


The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Nathaniel Cherry, Appellant.

[*1] Steven Banks, The Legal Aid Society, New York (Karen M. Kalikow of counsel), for appellant.

Robert M. Morgenthau, District Attorney, New York (Malancha Chanda of counsel), for respondent.

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Eduardo Padro, J.), entered on or about February 15, 2007, which adjudicated defendant a level three offender under the Sex Offender Registration Act (Correction Law art 6-C), unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The record supports the court's discretionary upward departure to a level three sex offender adjudication. There was clear and convincing evidence of factors, not adequately accounted for in the risk assessment instrument, demonstrating that defendant has a high risk of reoffending (see e.g. People v O'Flaherty, 23 AD3d 237 [2005], lv denied 6 NY3d 705 [2006]). Concur—Andrias, J.P., Saxe, Acosta and Renwick, JJ.