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Sounds like one of those situations where you just have to umpire.
By strict letter of the rule... if in your judgement this was playable with ordinary effort, and it rolled fair ... it's an IFF.
Keeping in mind the intent of the IFF though ... which is to prevent the defense from getting an easy DP... if it rolled this far I might be inclined to believe the ball - this close to the fence - was not catchable with ordinary effort. Any catch right up on a fence is tougher than the same catch without a fence in the way.
The other thing to consider, this far from the foul line --- would defense be likely to let it drop on purpose in an attempt to get a DP? No - probably not, as the ball rolling fair is probably not on their radar screen at all.
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