People v Voltaire

People v Voltaire 2013 NY Slip Op 08064 Decided on December 4, 2013 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 December 4, 2013
SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORKAPPELLATE DIVISION : SECOND JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT
REINALDO E. RIVERA, J.P.
L. PRISCILLA HALL
SHERI S. ROMAN
ROBERT J. MILLER, JJ.
2012-05213

[*1]People of State of New York, respondent,

v

Raynold Voltaire, appellant. Steven Banks, New York, N.Y. (Angie Louie of counsel), for appellant.




Charles J. Hynes, District Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Leonard
Joblove and Linda Breen of counsel), for respondent.


DECISION & ORDER

Appeal by the defendant, as limited by his brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Walsh, J.), dated May 24, 2012, as, after a hearing, designated him a level two sex offender pursuant to Correction Law article 6-C.

ORDERED that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, without costs or disbursements.

Contrary to the defendant's contention, under the circumstances of this case, including the fact that the defendant and three codefendants took turns brutally raping and sodomizing the then-19-year-old victim, the Supreme Court properly determined that there were aggravating factors not adequately taken into account by the SORA guidelines (see People v Henry, 91 AD3d 927; People v Wyatt, 89 AD3d 112, 121, 123; People v Ray, 86 AD3d 435; People v Rios, 57 AD3d 501, 502; People v Miller, 48 AD3d 774, 774-775; People v Joslyn, 27 AD3d 1033, 1034-1035). Upon making such a determination, the Supreme Court providently exercised its discretion in granting the People's application for an upward departure (see People v Henry, 91 AD3d at 927; People v Wyatt, 89 AD3d at 121, 123).
RIVERA, J.P., HALL, ROMAN and MILLER, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court