Schales

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,  No. 07-10288 Plaintiff-Appellee, v.  D.C. No.

CR-05-00385-OWW

WALTER M. SCHALES,

OPINION

Defendant-Appellant.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California Oliver W. Wanger, District Judge, Presiding

Argued April 15, 2008 Submitted October 20, 2008 San Francisco, California

Filed October 20, 2008

Before: Mary M. Schroeder, Richard R. Clifton, and Consuelo M. Callahan, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Callahan

14725 UNITED STATES v. SCHALES 14731

COUNSEL

Daniel J. Broderick, Federal Defender, Melody M. Walcott, Assistant Federal Defender (Argued), of Fresno, California, on behalf of defendant-appellant Walter M. Schales.

McGregor W. Scott, United States Attorney, David L. Gappa, Assistant United States Attorney (Argued), of Fresno, Califor- nia, on behalf of plaintiff-appellee The United States of America.

OPINION

CALLAHAN, Circuit Judge:

Walter M. Schales (“Schales”), who was forty-five years old at the time of this incident, approached a fourteen-year- old girl at a…