District court’s imposition of a sentence of four-months’ imprisonment on a defendant convicted of wire fraud for defrauding several people out of money and property, by posing as an expectant mother willing to give her child up for adoption, is affirmed where: 1) district court  correctly applied the “vulnerable victim” and “mass-marketing” sentence enhancements; and 2) the district court properly considered the section 3553(a) factors. 

Read US v. Christiansen, No. 09-1925

Appellate Information

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin

Decided February 2, 2010

Judges

Before:  Cudahy, Flaum,  and Evans,  Circuit Judges

Opinion by Circuit Judge  Evans

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