This proceeding brought before the court on 26 May 2011 held a probable cause hearing arising out of a petition filed on 14 January 2011 by the New York State Attorney General (“Petitioner”), pursuant to Article 10 of the Mental Hygiene Law (“MHL”), seeking a determination that Respondent ET is…
This is a proceeding wherein the Defendant appeared before the Court for a risk level determination pursuant to the Sex Offender Registration Act (SORA). First, defendant moved to have this Court declare SORA unconstitutional and argues that the SORA Risk Assessment Instrument (RAI) does not measure the risk of re-offense…
In the case at bar, the claim that the federal jurisdictional predicate excludes BM’s federal crime from inclusion under SORA is even weaker. First, in fact, BM was in New York County when he attempted to acquire the videotapes, and second, the jurisdictional requirement is for the federal crime, in…
On 12 May 1999, BM pleaded guilty in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York to an indictment charging a violation of 18 USC § 2252 (a) (2), a federal class C felony, carrying a potential punishment of more than one-year imprisonment. The indictment charged…
Respondent’s background was obtained by means of questions put to TS who has supervised respondent’s foster care with New York Foundling since 2007. Criminal Respondent was referred to the Girls Education & Mentoring Services, a social services program offering counseling to young women who have been sexually exploited sometime in…
In this proceeding, the criminal respondent is charged with committing acts which, were she an adult, would constitute the crimes of Prostitution, Resisting Arrest, Obstructing Governmental Administration in the Second Degree, and False Personation. Respondent has moved pursuant to Family Court Act § 311.4(3) for an order directing the substitution…
This case involves for petitions pursuant to Article 10 of the Mental Hygiene Law. In April 2008, the State moved to transfer the venue of these proceedings from New York County, where they are currently located, to the jurisdictions where the crimes committed by the offenders in these cases occurred.…
Respondent is the subject of a sex offender civil management petition filed pursuant to article 10 of the Mental Hygiene Law. A hearing was conducted to determine whether probable cause exists to believe respondent is a sex offender requiring civil management pursuant to Mental Hygiene Law § 10.06 (k). The…
A New York Sex Crimes Lawyer said that, the Respondent is the subject of a sex offender civil management proceeding pursuant to Article 10 of the Mental Hygiene Law (“Article 10”). As noted in more detail infra, the Respondent admitted that he suffered from a Mental Abnormality under the statute…
Effective 21 January 1996, the New York Sex Offender Registration Act (SORA), section 3 of Chapter 192 of the Laws of 1995, Correction Law Art. 6-C, sections 168-et seq., modeled after New Jersey’s Megan’s Law, requires that convicted criminal sex offenders register with the appropriate law enforcement agencies. On the…