PEOPLE v. GARCIA

2010-10566.

144 A.D.3d 650 (2016)

2016 NY Slip Op 07169

39 N.Y.S.3d 821

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. JOSE GARCIA, Appellant.

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

Decided November 2, 2016.


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

When deciding whether a sex offender is entitled to a downward departure from his or her presumptive risk level, the court must determine, "[a]t the first step, ... whether the... mitigating circumstances alleged by [the sex offender] are, as a matter of law, of a kind or to a degree not adequately taken into account by the [Sex Offender Registration Act (hereinafter SORA)] guidelines. At the second...

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