102769P.pdf   12/05/2011  United States  v.  Ronald Jones
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  10-2769
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Shepherd, Author, with Wollman and Bye, Circuit Judges]
   Criminal case - Criminal law. District court did not abuse its discretion
   by denying defendant's motion to continue trial in order to substitute
   counsel as his retained attorney was prepared and ready for trial; the court
   made an adequate inquiry into the nature of defendant's complaints and
   did not abuse its discretion by finding his dissatisfaction with counsel did
   not rise to the level of a conflict which would require a continuance and
   substitution of counsel; defendant waived any objection he might have had
   to the court's action in playing tapes for the jury outside of his presence as
   his attorney did not object to the action and helped devise the process
   used for listening to the tapes; playback of the tapes for the jury's
   deliberations did not constitute a structural error.