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Date Created: 2020-12-10 20:08:37.015748+00
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People v McFadden (2020 NY Slip Op 07467)

People v McFadden

2020 NY Slip Op 07467

Decided on December 10, 2020

Appellate Division, First 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 and Entered: December 10, 2020

Before: Manzanet-Daniels, J.P., Mazzarelli, Gesmer, Moulton, Shulman, JJ. 

Ind. No. 694/15 Appeal No. 12613 Case No. 2018-1963 

[*1]The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
vLloyd McFadden, Defendant-Appellant.

Robert S. Dean, Center for Appellate Litigation, New York (Camilla Hsu of counsel), for appellant.
Darcel D. Clark, District Attorney, Bronx (Felicia A. Yancey of counsel), for respondent.

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Raymond L. Bruce, J.), entered on or about December 15, 2017, 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 outweighed by aggravating factors, including the seriousness of the underlying offense and defendant's lengthy criminal history.THIS CONSTITUTES THE DECISION AND ORDER
OF THE SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST DEPARTMENT.
ENTERED: December 10, 2020