Whittaker

NOT FOR PUBLICATION FILED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS APR 22 2025

MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK

U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, No. 24-2064 D.C. No. Plaintiff - Appellant, 2:23-cr-00013-JCM-BNW-1 v.

MEMORANDUM*

RICHARD WHITTAKER,

Defendant - Appellee.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Nevada James C. Mahan, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted March 6, 2025 Las Vegas, Nevada

Before: RAWLINSON, MILLER, and DESAI, Circuit Judges.

Richard Whittaker, a convicted sex offender, pleaded guilty in 2017 to

traveling between States without updating his Sex Offender Registration and

Notification Act (SORNA) registration, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2250(a). He

was sentenced to a term of imprisonment and a lifetime of supervised release. One

of the conditions of his supervised release was that he comply with SORNA in the

* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3. future. In 2022, after his release from prison, Whittaker allegedly traveled…