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CRIMINAL LAW/SEX OFFENDER REGISTRATION ACT (SORA) Criteria for Downward Departure Explained (Not Met Here)

The Second Department, in finding the defendant was not entitled to a downward departure to reduce his risk assessment, explained the downward departure criteria:

There is a three-step process to be followed in determining whether a downward departure is appropriate … . “At the first step, the court must decide whether the . . . mitigating circumstances alleged by [the defendant] are, as a matter of law, of a kind or to a degree not adequately taken into account by the guidelines. At the second step, the court must decide whether the [defendant] has adduced sufficient evidence to meet [his or her] burden of proof in establishing that the alleged . . . mitigating circumstances actually exist in the case at hand . . . . [A]t the third step, the court must exercise its discretion by weighing the . . . mitigating factors to determine whether the totality of the circumstances warrants a departure to avoid an [over-assessment] of the defendant’s dangerousness and risk of sexual recidivism” … .

Upon our application of the standards set forth in People v Gillotti (23 NY2d 841), the record does not demonstrate the appellant’s entitlement to a downward departure … . The appellant failed to prove, by a preponderance of the evidence …, the existence of any mitigating circumstance “of a kind or to a degree not adequately taken into account by the guidelines” … . People v Stewart, 2015 NY Slip Op 02741, 2nd Dept 4-1-15

 

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