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THE PORTION OF THE CORRECTION LAW WHICH REQUIRED DEFENDANT BE DESIGNATED A “SEXUALLY VIOLENT OFFENDER,” BASED UPON AN OHIO TELEPHONE-SOLICITATION OFFENSE WHICH DID NOT INVOLVE VIOLENCE, IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL AS APPLIED TO DEFENDANT (FOURTH DEPT).

The Fourth Department, reversing County Court, over a dissent, determined the portion of “Correction Law § 168-a (3) (b), which defines a ‘sexually violent offense’ as 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'” is unconstitutional as applied to defendant. Defendant pled guilty to an Ohio offense which prohibits “soliciting” a person 13 to 15 years old by telephone. Violence is not an element of the Ohio offense:

… [W]e conclude that defendant established that he is an “individual[ ] . . . for whom the [sexually violent] offender designation ‘is unmerited’ ” … because the out-of-state conviction was “not sexual[ly violent] in nature and his conduct provides no basis to predict risk of future sexual[ly violent] harm” … . * * *

… [W]e conclude that, as applied to him, the designation of defendant as a sexually violent offender pursuant to the second disjunctive clause of Correction Law § 168-a (3) (b) “unconstitutionally impacts defendant’s liberty interest in a criminal designation that rationally fits his conduct and public safety risk” … . People v Brightman, 2024 NY Slip Op 04654, Fourth Dept 9-27-24

Practice Point: Here the Correction Law required that defendant be designated a “sexually violent offender” based on an Ohio conviction for telephone solicitation of a person between 13 and 15 which did not involve violence. That portion of the Correction Law was deemed unconstitutional as applied to the defendant.

 

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