Ordered that the order is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.
The defendant appeals from his designation as a level two sex offender pursuant to the Sex Offender Registration Act (Correction Law art 6-C [hereinafter SORA]).
Where, as here, a defendant seeks a downward departure from the presumptive risk level, the defendant has the initial burden of "(1) identifying, as a matter of law, an appropriate mitigating factor, namely, a factor which tends to...
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