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People v Lynch (2023 NY Slip Op 03248)

People v Lynch

2023 NY Slip Op 03248

Decided on June 14, 2023

Appellate Division, Second 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 on June 14, 2023
SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department

BETSY BARROS, J.P.
JOSEPH J. MALTESE
BARRY E. WARHIT
JANICE A. TAYLOR, JJ.

2022-07402

[*1]People of State of New York, respondent,
vChristopher Lynch, appellant. 

Clare J. Degnan, White Plains, NY (Salvatore A. Gaetani of counsel), for appellant.
Miriam E. Rocah, District Attorney, White Plains, NY (William C. Milaccio and Steven A. Bender of counsel), for respondent.

DECISION & ORDER
Appeal by the defendant from an order of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Susan Cacace, J.), dated July 1, 2022, which, after a hearing, designated him a level two sex offender pursuant to Correctional Law article 6-C.
ORDERED that the order is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.
Contrary to the defendant's contention, the Supreme Court properly denied his application for a downward departure from his presumptive risk level of two to risk level one. The court properly determined that the imposition of points under risk factors 3 (number of victims) and 7 (relationship with victim) did not result in an overassessment of the defendant's risk to public safety (see People v Gillotti, 23 NY3d 841, 861; People v Glosque, 201 AD3d 823, 824; People v Cartiglia, 169 AD3d 725, 726; People v Tirado, 165 AD3d 991, 992; cf. People v Sesito, 195 AD3d 869, 870; People v Gonzalez, 189 AD3d 509, 511), and the defendant failed to otherwise demonstrate the existence of a mitigating factor not already taken into account by the risk assessment instrument that would warrant a downward departure (see People v Gillotti, 23 NY3d at 857).
BARROS, J.P., MALTESE, WARHIT and TAYLOR, JJ., concur.
ENTER:
Maria T. Fasulo
Clerk of the Court