Legal Opinion

People v. Lathan

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

Decided June 3, 2015No. 2014-08188PublishedCited by 25 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Appeal by the defendant from an order of the County Court, Suffolk County (Kahn, J.), dated August 7, 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.

In the determination of 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 of-fen der’s presumptive risk level generally is only warranted where there exists a mitigating factor of a kind, or to a degree, that is…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. People v. GillottiNew York Court of Appeals · 2014
  2. People v. WyattAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2011
  3. People v. WatsonAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2012
  4. People v. GoodwinAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2008
  5. People v. CiudadrealAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2015

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3Cited by25 opinions

  1. People v. SotomayerAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2016
  2. People v. RobinsonAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2016
  3. People v. WarrenAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2017
  4. People v. MoultrieAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2017
  5. People v. LopezAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2021

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