Esperanza Contreras v. United States

McLEESE, Associate Judge:

Appellant Esperanza Contreras challenges her (2012 Repl.). Ms. Contreras argues that the trial court erroneously denied her request for a jury trial and that the evidence was insufficient to support her conviction. We affirm.

I

The government’s evidence at trial indicated the following. Ms. Contreras’s sixteen-year-old daughter left Ms. Contreras’s home with a friend. When they returned, Ms. Contreras was “very mad,” because she thought that her daughter and her daughter’s friend had been gone too long and because her daughter had not answered Ms. Contreras’s telephone…