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SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
             Appellate Division, Fourth Judicial Department

193
KA 09-01456
PRESENT: SMITH, J.P., PERADOTTO, LINDLEY, SCONIERS, AND MARTOCHE, JJ.

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, RESPONDENT,

                      V                              MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

GEORGE E. ROGERS, DEFENDANT-APPELLANT.

TIMOTHY P. DONAHER, PUBLIC DEFENDER, ROCHESTER (JAMES ECKERT OF
COUNSEL), FOR DEFENDANT-APPELLANT.

MICHAEL C. GREEN, DISTRICT ATTORNEY, ROCHESTER (NANCY GILLIGAN OF
COUNSEL), FOR RESPONDENT.

     Appeal from an order of the Monroe County Court (Frank P. Geraci,
Jr., J.), entered June 15, 2009. The order determined that defendant
is a level three risk pursuant to the Sex Offender Registration Act.

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

     Memorandum: On appeal from an order determining that he is a
level three risk pursuant to the Sex Offender Registration Act
(Correction Law § 168 et seq.), defendant contends he was entitled to
a downward departure from his presumptive risk level. Defendant
failed to preserve that contention for our review (see People v
Gilbert, 78 AD3d 1584, 1585-1586; People v Kelley, 64 AD3d 1192, lv
denied 13 NY3d 708). In any event, that contention lacks merit
inasmuch as defendant failed to “ ‘present clear and convincing
evidence of special circumstances justifying a downward departure’ ”
(People v Clark, 66 AD3d 1366, 1367, lv denied 13 NY3d 713; see People
v Sawyer, 78 AD3d 1517).

Entered:    February 18, 2011                      Patricia L. Morgan
                                                   Clerk of the Court