Legal Opinion

People v. Dyson

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided July 1, 2015No. 2014-10682PublishedCited by 12 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Appeal by the defendant from an order of the County Court, Suffolk County (Kahn, J.), dated October 9, 2014, which, after a hearing, designated him a level two sex offender pursuant to Correction Law article 6-C.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.

In determining a defendant’s risk level pursuant to the Sex Offender Registration Act (see Correction Law art 6-C [hereinafter SORA]), “[a] downward departure from a sex offender’s presumptive risk level generally is only warranted where there exists a mitigating factor of a kind, or to a degree, that is not otherwise…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. People v. WatsonAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2012
  2. People v. TorresAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2015
  3. People v. WashingtonAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2011
  4. People v. PendletonAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2013
  5. People v. ColemanAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2014

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3Cited by12 opinions

  1. People v. SantiagoAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2016
  2. People v. RossanoAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2016
  3. People v. PryorAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2021
  4. People v. WhitneyAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2019
  5. People v. ArtisAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2018

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