State v. Van Gorden

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that subjecting a victim to multiple forms of sexual penetration can be an aggravating factor
• recognizing the zone-of-privacy aggravating factor in a criminal sexual conduct case
• affirming greater than double departure when defendant inflicted a “serious and permanent” injury, subjected victim to multiple forms of penetration, and invaded victim’s zone of privacy
• 66-year-old woman held particularly vulnerable; crimes were burglary, kidnapping, and sex offenses where age not an element
• although departure justified by totality of circumstances, particular significance is attached to fact of permanent injury
• three types of penetration was aggra vating factor supporting more than triple durational departure

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).