United States v. Nelson A. McCall

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that courts limit application of § 3A1.1 to “broad generalizations about victims based upon their membership in a class . . . where a very substantial portion of the class is not in fact particularly vulnerable to the crime in question
• noting need to evaluate particular characteristics of estate to assess vulnerability
• applying identically worded version of § 3A1.1(b)(1) in 1998 Guidelines Manual
• “[T]he Government need not prove that every, or even most, of Zats’ victims were vulnerable or that he knew or should have known of the vulnerabilities in every case. The language of the guideline requires only that ‘a victim of the offense was a vulnerable victim.’ ” (citation omitted

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).