U.S. v. Davenport, No. 00-10572 (5th Cir.) (286 F.3d 217) (March 14, 2002) (Judge Edith Brown Clement)
Here the Court held that it was not an abuse of discretion for the district court to impose a 13-year upward departure to a Guideline sentence of 7 years based on the defendant's abuse of some 65 elderly victims.
In this case, the defendant pled guilty to devising a fradulent ...
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