Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Anthony J. Ferrara, J.), entered September 27, 2013, which denied defendant's Correction Law § 168-o (2) petition to modify his sex offender classification, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs, and the matter remanded to Supreme Court for a hearing before a different Justice.
Under the circumstances presented, the court erred in refusing to permit defendant to appear at the hearing via video conferencing (
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