063464P.pdf   06/06/2007  United States  v.  Tommie Crawford
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  06-3464
                          and No:  06-3465
                          and No:  06-3466
   U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - St. Paul   
   [PUBLISHED] [Melloy, Author, with Bowman and Gruender, Circuit
   Judges]
   Criminal case - Criminal law. District court did not err in allowing
   defendant to represent himself, and a competency hearing was not
   required as there was no reasonable cause to believe he was not
   competent; however, the court cannot conclude on the basis of this record 
   that defendant possessed the requisite knowledge of the challenges of
   proceeding without counsel to have knowingly and intelligently waived
   his right to counsel at sentencing; the error in allowing defendant to
   proceed pro se at sentencing was harmless in this situation as the district
   court imposed the minimum term of imprisonment allowed by the statute
   and lacked authority to impose a more lenient sentence.