Bellhouse

NOT FOR PUBLICATION FILED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS MAR 10 2026

MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK

U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, No. 23-3996 D.C. No. Plaintiff - Appellee, 4:22-cr-00066-YGR-1 v.

MEMORANDUM*

JOHN RUSSELL BELLHOUSE,

Defendant - Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted February 13, 2026 San Francisco, California

Before: MURGUIA, Chief Judge, and S.R. THOMAS and MILLER, Circuit Judges.

John Bellhouse (“Defendant”) was convicted by a jury of two counts of sexual

abuse of a ward, 18 U.S.C. § 2243(b), and three counts of abusive sexual contact,

18 U.S.C. § 2244(a)(4), for his receipt of oral sex and his sexual touching of two

inmates in an all-female federal correctional institution. Defendant was sentenced

* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3. to sixty-three months of incarceration and five years of supervised release and

ordered to…