Case Name: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Tony Sanchez, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2016-10-11
Citations: 143 A.D.3d 506
Docket Number: 
Parties: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Tony Sanchez, Appellant.
Judges: Concur — Mazzarelli, J.P., Sweeny, Acosta, Moskow-itz and Gesmer, JJ.
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 143
Pages: 506–506

Head Matter:
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Tony Sanchez, Appellant.
[38 NYS3d 560]

Opinion:
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Juan M. Merchan, J.), entered on or about March 19, 2015, which adjudicated defendant a level three predicate sex offender pursuant to the Sex Offender Registration Act (Correction Law art 6-C), unanimously affirmed, without costs.
The court properly exercised its discretion when it declined to grant a downward departure from the presumptive override to level three for a prior felony sex crime conviction (see generally People v Howard, 27 NY3d 337, 339 [2016]; 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 facts that defendant's prior sex crime had been committed against a child, and that in the underlying crime he kidnapped a four-year-old child, holding him overnight and abandoning him in a subway station.
We have considered defendant's additional arguments, including his assertion that the court insufficiently considered alternative risk assessment instruments, and we find them unavailing.
Concur — Mazzarelli, J.P., Sweeny, Acosta, Moskow-itz and Gesmer, JJ.