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BECAUSE DEFENDANT’S 20-YEAR-OLD OUT-OF-STATE CONVICTION DID NOT INVOLVE A SEXUALLY VIOLENT OFFENSE, THE CORRECTION LAW WHICH REQUIRES THAT HE BE DESIGNATED A SEXUALLY VIOLENT OFFENDER IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL AS APPLIED TO HIM (FOURTH DEPT).

The Fourth Department, reversing County Court, determined defendant should not have been designated a sexually violent offender based upon a 20-year-old out-of-state conviction of an offense which would not qualify as a sexually violent offense in New York:

There is no dispute that the crime of which defendant was convicted, sexual assault in violation of 18 Pa Cons Stat § 3124.1, does not include all of the essential elements of a sexually violent offense in New York enumerated in Correction Law § 168-a (3) (a), and therefore is not a sexually violent offense under the first disjunctive clause of Correction Law § 168-a (3) (b). Instead, after defendant moved to New York approximately 20 years after the sexual assault conviction was entered and the Board of Examiners of Sex Offenders determined that he was required to register as a sex offender in New York …, the People contended that County Court should designate him a sexually violent offender under the second disjunctive clause of Correction Law § 168-a (3) (b). That clause defines a sexually violent offense as including a “conviction of a felony in any other jurisdiction for which the offender is required to register as a sex offender in the jurisdiction in which the conviction occurred.” The court designated defendant a sexually violent offender under the foreign registration clause.

… [W]e agree with defendant that the foreign registration clause of Correction Law § 168-a (3) (b) is unconstitutional, as applied to him, under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution. People v Zellefrow, 2024 NY Slip Op 03605, Fourth Dept 7-3-24

Practice Point: The Correction Law which requires a person convicted of a registrable offense in another state to be designated a sexually violent offender upon moving to New York is unconstitutional as applied to the defendant here, whose out-of-state conviction did not involve a sexually violent offense under New York law.​

 

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