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SUPREME COURT SHOULD NOT HAVE BASED AN UPWARD DEPARTURE IN THIS SORA RISK-ASSESSMENT PROCEEDING ON GROUNDS NOT RAISED BY THE PEOPLE WHERE THE DEFENDANT WAS NOT GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO CONTEST THOSE GROUNDS (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department, reversing the SORA risk level assessment, determined defendant should have been given the opportunity to contest the grounds for an upward department not raised by the People:

A “SORA court deprive[s a] defendant of those basic procedural guarantees when it upwardly depart[s] from the presumptive risk level without affording [the] defendant notice or an opportunity to contest the basis for the departure” … .

Here, the Supreme Court erred in basing its decision to depart from the presumptive risk level, in part, upon grounds that were not raised by the People and of which the defendant had no notice or an opportunity to contest ,,, , People v Cutting, 2023 NY Slip Op 05524, Second Dept 11-1-23

Practice Point: A SORA risk-level assessment cannot be based on grounds of which the defendant was not given notice or the opportunity to contest.

 

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