Legal Opinion
People v. Ratcliff
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided June 11, 2013PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Renee A. White, J.), entered on or about September 6, 2011, which adjudicated defendant a level two sexually violent offender pursuant to the Sex Offender Registration Act (Correction Law art 6-C), unanimously affirmed, without costs.
The record supports the court’s discretionary upward departure. “[T]he level suggested by the [risk assessment instrument] is merely presumptive and a SORA court possesses the discretion to impose a lower or higher risk level if it concludes that the factors in the RAI do not result in an appropriate designation” (People v…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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