State v. Farnsworth
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Pine, J.
At issue on this appeal is the constitutionality of Mental *16Hygiene Law article 10 as applied to persons such as respondent who were convicted of certain designated felonies that were sexually motivated and were committed before the effective date of article 10 (§ 10.03 [f], [g] [4]). Because sexual motivation was not an element of the underlying designated felonies, article 10 requires that the sexual motivation be established at the civil commitment trial (Mental Hygiene Law § 10.07 [c]), where the standard of proof is clear and convincing evidence (§ 10.07 [d]).…
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