United States Fourth Circuit

A sentence for Social Security fraud and aggravated identity theft is affirmed, where: 1) there was no error in the two-prong test the district court employed to assess the applicability of the 2-level vulnerable victim enhancement; 2) the district court's finding that the victim was unusually vulnerable was not clearly erroneous; and 3) the defendant knew or should have known of the victim's unusual vulnerability, and knowledge of the precise nature of the vulnerability is not required.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/16/2012
• Published 05/16/2012

Judges

• Wilkinson

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Martin Bahl, Rachel Miller Yasser