People v. Kearns

Friedmann, J.,

concurs and votes to affirm the judgment appealed from with the following memorandum: Although I am obliged by State law to concur with the majority’s decision to affirm, I write separately to address the limited issue of the apparent unreviewability of a convicted sex offender’s “risk level determination” under the Sex Offender Registration Act (Correction Law Art 6-C) (hereinafter SORA or the Act), or New York’s version of New Jersey’s so-called Megan’s Law.

While not minimizing in any way the crimes of which these offenders have been found guilty, I consider it troubling that…