People v Pittman |
2014 NY Slip Op 00300 [113 AD3d 497] |
January 21, 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 Lionel Pittman, Appellant. |
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Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., District Attorney, New York (Grace Vee of counsel), for respondent.
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Ruth Pickholz, J.), entered on or about June 22, 2012, which adjudicated defendant a level two sexually violent offender pursuant to the Sex Offender Registration Act (Correction Law art 6-C), unanimously affirmed, without costs.
The court providently exercised its discretion in declining to grant defendant a downward departure to level one (see People v Cintron, 12 NY3d 60, 70 [2009], cert denied 558 US 1011 [2009]; People v Mingo, 12 NY3d 563, 568 n 2 [2009]). The risk assessment instrument adequately took into account the absence of a prior sex crime and defendant's prison record. Further, neither defendant's age (late 40s) nor any of the other factors he relied on warranted a downward departure in light of the seriousness of his offense against two very young children (see e.g. People v Thomas, 105 AD3d 640 [1st Dept 2013], lv denied 21 NY3d 863 [2013]). Concur—Tom, J.P., Saxe, Moskowitz, Gische and Clark, JJ.