People v. Liguori

Appeal by the defendant from an order of the County Court, Suffolk County (Kahn, J.), dated August 26, 2014, which, after a hearing, designated him a level three sex offender pursuant to Correction Law article 6-C.

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

Once a presumptive risk level has been determined under the Sex Offender Registration Act (see Correction Law art 6-C [hereinafter SORA]), a defendant who requests a downward departure from that level has the initial burden of “(1) identifying, as a matter of law, an appropriate mitigating factor, namely, a factor…