United States v. Lupe Mercado

NOT FOR PUBLICATION FILED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS DEC 21 2021

MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK

U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, No. 20-10263

Plaintiff-Appellee, D.C. No. 3:13-cr-00764-WHO-

v.

MEMORANDUM*

LUPE MERCADO,

Defendant-Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California William H. Orrick, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted November 17, 2021 San Francisco, California

Before: WATFORD and FRIEDLAND, Circuit Judges, and KORMAN,** District Judge.

When Lupe Mercado and her husband Barry Gilton discovered that their 17-

year-old daughter Leticia Gilton was having difficulties at school, they let her

move from San Francisco to Los Angeles to live with her cousin Antonio Gilton

* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3. ** The Honorable Edward R. Korman, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of New York, sitting by designation.

1 and his family. The plan was for her to study for her high school…