102758P.pdf   08/30/2011  United States  v.  Clifton Taylor
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  10-2758
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Kansas City   
   [PUBLISHED] [Loken, Author, with Baldock and Murphy, Circuit Judges] 
   Criminal case - criminal law. District court made a careful and thorough
   inquiry into defendant's repeated claims of dissatisfaction with his
   appointed counsel and did not abuse its discretion by denying the motion;
   by the time of trial, it was clear that the attorney-client relationship had
   broken down, and the court did not err in relieving counsel and refusing to
   appoint substitute counsel; a persistent, unreasonable demand for
   dismissal of counsel and appointment of counsel is the functional
   equivalent of a voluntary waiver of counsel, and the court did not err in
   proceeding to trial with defendant representing himself.