United States v. Bonnie Brierton

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• concluding the mandatory Guidelines were not subject to vagueness challenges
• affirming a relevant conduct enhancement because a credit union was the common victim where defendant was fraudulently altering loans and falsifying other financial records at the credit union
• affirming application of a similar enhancement when the district court found that but for the defendant’s resignation and the installation of a new president, “the credit union faced a real danger of closing or going into receivership” (internal marks omitted)
• “The Guidelines do not establish the illegality of any conduct. Rather, they . . . are designed to assist and limit the discretion of the sentencing judge.”
• “[T]he vagueness doctrine presumes a law that attempts to proscribe or prescribe conduct.”
• “[T]he vagueness doctrine presumes a law that attempts to proscribe or prescribe conduct.”

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