Pelayo-Garcia

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

LUIS ANTONIO PELAYO-GARCIA, 

Petitioner, No. 05-70929

v.  Agency No.

A090-975-343

ERIC H. HOLDER JR., Attorney

OPINION

General, Respondent.  On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals

Argued November 19, 2008 Submitted December 3, 2009 San Francisco, California

Filed December 14, 2009

Before: John T. Noonan, Andrew J. Kleinfeld and Sandra S. Ikuta, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Ikuta

16441 16444 PELAYO-GARCIA v. HOLDER

COUNSEL

Lilia G. Alcaraz, the Martinez-Senftner Law Firm PC and Gloria P. Martinez-Senftner (argued), the Martinez-Senftner Law Firm PC, for the petitioner.

Peter D. Keisler, United States Department of Justice; Michelle Gordon Latour, United States Department of Justice; Jennifer J. Keeney, United States Department of Justice; and Erica Miles (argued), United States Department of Justice, for the respondent.

OPINION

IKUTA, Circuit Judge:

This case presents the question whether the offense of “un- lawful sexual intercourse with a minor” under section 261.5(d) of the California Penal Code meets the…