People v. Majid
Opinion of the Court
The record supports the court’s discretionary upward departure to level three. The court properly determined that although defendant received points relating to his use of violence in the commission of the underlying sex crime, the risk assessment instrument did not adequately take into account the extreme brutality of the crime, which led to convictions of attempted murder in the second degree, sodomy in the first degree, and robbery in the first degree (see e.g. People v Guasp, 95 AD3d 608 [1st Dept 2012]). These aggravating factors outweighed the mitigating factors cited by defendant. Concur— Andrias, J.P., Sweeny, Moskowitz, Freedman and Richter, JJ.
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