People v Higgins
2008 NY Slip Op 07342 [55 AD3d 1303]
October 3, 2008
Appellate Division, Fourth Department
As corrected through Wednesday, December 10, 2008


The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Lawrence K.Higgins, Appellant.

[*1]Arthur I. Seld, Seneca Falls, for defendant-appellant.

Richard E. Swinehart, District Attorney, Waterloo (John A. Cirando of counsel), forrespondent.

Appeal from an order of the Seneca County Court (W. Patrick Falvey, J.), entered August 2,2007. The order denied defendant's petition to modify the determination that he is a level two riskpursuant to the Sex Offender Registration Act.

It is hereby ordered that the order so appealed from is unanimously affirmed without costs.

Memorandum: Defendant appeals from an order denying his petition pursuant to Correction Law§ 168-o seeking to modify the determination "regarding the level of notification" (§ 168-o[2]), i.e., that he is a level two risk pursuant to the Sex Offender Registration Act (Correction Law§ 168 et seq.). We agree with County Court that defendant failed to meet his "burden ofproving the facts supporting the requested modification by clear and convincing evidence" (§168-o [2]). Present—Scudder, P.J., Centra, Fahey, Peradotto and Green, JJ.


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