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191160P.pdf 06/04/2020 United States v. Roman Harlan
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 19-1160
U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska - Omaha
[PUBLISHED] [Benton, Author, with Loken and Kelly, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Criminal law and sentencing. The magistrate judge did not
abuse her discretion in denying defendant's pre-trial motion for
substitute counsel as defendant did not show justifiable dissatisfaction
with his attorney; Speedy Trial Act argument rejected as the magistrate
judge did not abuse her discretion in granting defendant's counsel's
request for a continuance or in excluding the extended time from the
Speedy Trial Act calculation; the district court did not err in denying
defendant's mid-trial request to proceed pro se; within-guidelines
sentence was not an abuse of the district court's discretion.