The court's decision indicates that it did not give adequate consideration to defendant's request for a discretionary downward departure. Instead, the court appears to have misconstrued the request as limited to the risk factor for number of victims. However, a downward departure does not affect the calculation of the presumptive risk level; it is a discretionary determination that, despite the total number of points assessed and the offender's presumptive risk level, a lower...
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