People v Lopez
2023 NY Slip Op 02085 [215 AD3d 575]
April 25, 2023
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, May 31, 2023


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 The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Vincent Lopez, Appellant.

Mark Zeno, Center for Appellate Litigation, New York (Leanna J. Duncan of counsel), for appellant.

Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., District Attorney, New York (Jamie Masten of counsel), for respondent.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Maxwell Wiley, J.), entered on or about October 4, 2021, 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 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 risk assessment instrument, or were outweighed by the seriousness of the underlying crime. In the underlying incident, defendant brutally assaulted and raped his coworker during an overnight shift. Defendant's lack of a sex crime history, family support, rehabilitation in prison, and remorse were adequately taken into account by the risk assessment instrument (see e.g. People v Hernandez, 205 AD3d 485 [1st Dept 2022]). Defendant's participation in sex offender treatment was not exceptional (see People v Alcantara, 154 AD3d 532 [1st Dept 2017], lv denied 30 NY3d 908 [2018]). Defendant's arguments regarding his youthful age at the time of the underlying offense and at the time of a prior offense are unpreserved and unavailing.

We have considered and rejected defendant's remaining arguments, including his alternative request for a remand for further proceedings. Concur—Kapnick, J.P., Kern, Friedman, Gesmer, Pitt-Burke, JJ.