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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v William Green, Appellant.
    [8 NYS3d 560]
   Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Anthony J. Ferrara, J.), entered September 27, 2013, which denied defendant’s Correction Law § 168-o (2) petition to modify his sex offender classification, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs, and the matter remanded to Supreme Court for a hearing before a different Justice.

Under the circumstances presented, the court erred in refusing to permit defendant to appear at the hearing via video conferencing (see Correction Law § 168-0 [4]; People v Marquez, 124 AD3d 741 [2d Dept 2015]). We remand the matter for the court to conduct a hearing with defendant’s participation, if he chooses, in person or, given the undisputed health limitations on his ability to travel, via video conferencing. Concur — Mazzarelli, J.P., Acosta, Saxe, Manzanet-Daniels and Clark, JJ.