People v. Sanford

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Richard D. Carruthers, J.), entered on or about March 18, 2005, which adjudicated defendant a level three sex offender pursuant to the Sex Offender Registration Act (Correction Law art 6-C), unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The hearing court properly determined that although defendant received points relating to the facts of the underlying sex crime, the risk assessment instrument failed to adequately take into account the extreme and unusual brutality of that crime, which warranted an upward departure (see People v Ferrer, 35 AD3d 297 [2006], lv…