Legal Opinion
People v. Woods
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided February 4, 2015No. 2013-07605PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Appeal by the defendant from an order of the County Court, Suffolk County (Kahn, J.), dated June 27, 2013, 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.
A downward departure from a sex offender’s presumptive risk level generally is warranted only where there exists a mitigating factor of a kind, or to a degree, that is otherwise not adequately taken into account by the Sex Offender Registration Act (hereinafter SORA) Guidelines (see Sex Offender Registration Act: Risk…
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- People v. FryerAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2012
- People v. WorrellAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2014
- People v. CarrollAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2013
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