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DEFENDANT WAS NOT AFFORDED EFFECTIVE COUNSEL AT THE SORA RISK LEVEL HEARING, COUNSEL DID NOT ADVOCATE FOR HIM AND DID NOT UNDERSTAND DOWNWARD DEPARTURE WAS AVAILABLE, NEW HEARING ORDERED (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department determined defendant was entitled to a new Sex Offender Registration Act (SORA) risk level hearing because his attorney did not advocate his position and did not understand the availability of downward departure:

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A defendant has a right to the effective assistance of counsel in a SORA proceeding … . Here, the defendant’s counsel “failed to litigate any aspect of the adjudication” … , and, instead, affirmatively asserted that there was no basis on which to challenge or depart from the presumptive risk level. Moreover, defense counsel’s comments suggested that there was no basis for a downward departure because the points “add[ed] up validly,” thus demonstrating a misunderstanding of the law regarding downward departures from the presumptive risk level … . These facts, as well as defense counsel’s failure to seek a downward departure under the circumstances of this case, operated to deprive the defendant of meaningful representation in the SORA proceeding … . People v Collins, 2017 NY Slip Op 08866, Second Dept 12-20-17

 

CRIMINAL LAW (SORA, DEFENDANT WAS NOT AFFORDED EFFECTIVE COUNSEL AT THE SORA RISK LEVEL HEARING, COUNSEL DID NOT ADVOCATE FOR HIM AND DID NOT UNDERSTAND DOWNWARD DEPARTURE WAS AVAILABLE, NEW HEARING ORDERED (SECOND DEPT))/ATTORNEYS (CRIMINAL LAW, SORA HEARING, DEFENDANT WAS NOT AFFORDED EFFECTIVE COUNSEL AT THE SORA RISK LEVEL HEARING, COUNSEL DID NOT ADVOCATE FOR HIM AND DID NOT UNDERSTAND DOWNWARD DEPARTURE WAS AVAILABLE, NEW HEARING ORDERED (SECOND DEPT))/INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE (SORA, DEFENDANT WAS NOT AFFORDED EFFECTIVE COUNSEL AT THE SORA RISK LEVEL HEARING, COUNSEL DID NOT ADVOCATE FOR HIM AND DID NOT UNDERSTAND DOWNWARD DEPARTURE WAS AVAILABLE, NEW HEARING ORDERED (SECOND DEPT))/SEX OFFENDER REGISTRATION ACT (SORA) (ATTORNEYS, INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE, DEFENDANT WAS NOT AFFORDED EFFECTIVE COUNSEL AT THE SORA RISK LEVEL HEARING, COUNSEL DID NOT ADVOCATE FOR HIM AND DID NOT UNDERSTAND DOWNWARD DEPARTURE WAS AVAILABLE, NEW HEARING ORDERED (SECOND DEPT))

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