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Increasing Defendant’s Risk Level Based Upon His Mental Retardation Was an Abuse of Discretion

In a risk assessment proceeding pursuant to the Sex Offender Registration Act (SORA), the First Department determined Supreme Court should not have increased defendant’s risk level from a presumptive level two to level three based upon his mental retardation. The court explained that there had been no “clinical assessment that the offender has a psychological, physical, or organic abnormality that decreases his ability to control impulsive sexual behavior: “

The court erred in finding that defendant’s mental retardation warranted an upward departure to level three. The essence of the court’s reasoning was that defendant lacked the ability to appreciate the inappropriateness of his actions, or could not control his impulsive behavior. A departure from the presumptive risk level is warranted “where there exists an aggravating or mitigating factor of a kind, or to a degree, that is otherwise not adequately taken into account by the guidelines” … . The guidelines clearly provide for an automatic override to a presumptive level three designation where there has been a clinical assessment that the offender has a psychological, physical, or organic abnormality that decreases his ability to control impulsive sexual behavior. Here, no such clinical assessment has been made, and thus an upward departure on this basis was improper… . People v McKelvin, 2015 NY Slip Op 02914, 1st Dept 4-7-15

 

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