112767P.pdf   08/30/2012  United States  v.  Rasheed Shakur
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  11-2767
                          and No:  11-2768
                          and No:  11-3822
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Kansas City   
   [PUBLISHED] [Loken, Author, with Gruender and Benton, Circuit Judges]
   Criminal case - Criminal law and Sentencing. District court carefully
   inquired why defendant Shakur was dissatisfied with his trial counsel
   when Shakur made a mid-trial motion to relieve counsel, and the court
   did not abuse its discretion by denying the request when Shakur could
   give no good reason for the motion and where granting the motion would
   have seriously disrupted the orderly completion of the trial; District court
   did not err in allowing Shakur to proceed pro se at sentencing; the district
   court violated Fed. R. Crim. P. 32.2(b)(2)(A) and (B) by not entering a
   preliminary order of forfeiture prior to judgment, and the district court did
   not have jurisdiction to enter a preliminary forfeiture order and a final
   forfeiture order after the entry of judgment; the forfeiture order is
   reversed and there can be no criminal forfeiture in Shakur's case;
   evidence was sufficient to support defendant Stockman's conviction for
   conspiring to distribute less than 50 kilograms of marijuana; no error in
   admitting evidence officers seized $30,000 from a closet in Stockman's
   house as this was probative evidence of drug dealing and did not unfairly
   prejudice Stockman; drug quantity findings are affirmed.