United States v. Pol-Flores

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• upholding vulnerable-victim enhancement because victim was “particularly susceptible [to fraud] based on her advanced age, status as a widow, difficulty resolving her husband’s estate, and desire to invest the money to establish an income”
• \[T]he linchpin of a substantively reasonable sentence is a plausible sentencing rationale and a defensible result.\ (brackets omitted)
• \[O]ne ground supporting a below-guideline sentence could be that the intended loss attributed to [the defendant] overvalued the seriousness of the offense.\ (internal quotation marks omitted)

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