PEOPLE v. COOKE


57 A.D.3d 750 (2008)

868 N.Y.S.2d 909

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. JOSEPH COOKE, Appellant.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department.

December 16, 2008.


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

A downward departure from the presumptive risk level recommended by the Board of Examiners of Sex Offenders in the risk assessment instrument, in this case, risk level three, is warranted only upon a showing by the defendant, by clear and convincing evidence, that there were mitigating factors that were not properly taken into account by the guidelines. Since the defendant failed to make that showing...

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