161903P.pdf   04/06/2017  United States  v.  Bruce Charles Tollefson
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  16-1903
   U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota - Fargo   
   [PUBLISHED] [Murphy, Author, with Beam and Benton, Circuit Judges] 
   Criminal case - Sentencing. The district court's standing order appointing 
   the Federal Public Defender to handle all motions for sentence reduction 
   under Amendment 782 did not violate defendant's Sixth Amendment rights; 
   defendants do not have a due process right to self-representation in 
   postconviction sentence reduction proceedings; the district court was not 
   required to entertain pro se motions filed by a represented party; there 
   is no right to counsel during a postconviction proceeding and a claim of 
   ineffective assistance of counsel necessarily fails; the district court 
   did not err in denying defendant's motion for a reduction of sentence 
   after considering the 3553(a) factors, the offense conduct and defendant's 
   post-sentencing accomplishments.