United States v. Ramos, No. 11-51232 (5th Cir. 2014)
Annotate this CaseDefendant appealed the district court's application of the vulnerable-victim enhancement to his sentence after pleading guilty to receipt, distribution, and possession of material involving the sexual exploitation of children. The court doubted that the district court correctly applied the vulnerable-victim enhancement here, but any error was harmless where it was apparent from the record that the district court would have imposed the same sentence had the Guidelines range been properly calculated and the Government had shown that the improperly calculated Guidelines did not influence the district court. Accordingly, the court affirmed the district court's sentence.
The court issued a subsequent related opinion or order on January 20, 2014.
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