THE SEX OFFENDER LEVEL ADJUDICATION IN NEW YORK COUNTY REQUIRED THE DISMISSAL OF THE SORA PROCEEDING IN BRONX COUNTY WHICH WAS BASED ON THE SAME CONDUCT (FIRST DEPT).
The First Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined the Bronx County SORA proceeding should have been dismissed because New York County had entered a sex offender level adjudication based on the defendant’s conduct in both counties:
… [T]he proceeding in Bronx County should have been dismissed on defendant’s motion where Supreme Court, New York County had entered a sex offender level adjudication based on defendant’s criminal conduct in both counties, which constituted the “current offenses” under the risk assessment instrument … . People v Cisneros, 2022 NY Slip Op 03454, First Dept 5-26-22
Practice Point: The same conduct in two counties will not support more than one SORA sex offender level adjudication.