The court providently exercised its discretion in denying youthful offender treatment. Because defendant was convicted of one of the sex crimes enumerated in CPL 720.10(2)(a)(iii), he was not eligible for such treatment in the absence of mitigating circumstances that "bear directly upon the manner in which the crime was committed" (CPL 720.10[3]). The record does not establish any mitigating circumstances of the type contemplated by the statute, and, given the circumstances...
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