A court has the discretion to downwardly depart from the presumptive risk level in a proceeding pursuant to New York's Sex Offender Registration Act (Correction Law art 6-C [hereinafter SORA]) only after a defendant makes a twofold showing. First, a defendant must identify, as a matter of law, an appropriate mitigating factor, namely, a factor which "tends...
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