191919P.pdf   04/13/2020  United States  v.  Terrance Brown
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  19-1919
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - St. Joseph   
   [PUBLISHED] [Gruender, Author, with Wollman and Shepherd, Circuit Judges] 
   Criminal case - Criminal law. During the pre-trial proceedings defendant 
   clearly and unequivocally asserted his right to self-representation, and 
   the court did not err in having him proceed pro se with his federal public 
   defender as stand-by counsel; even assuming this brief absence of counsel 
   was error, the error was harmless as defendant was without counsel at the 
   suppression hearing during the direct examination of only one government 
   witness and for a portion of the cross-examination of that witness; his 
   stand-by counsel completed the cross-examination, and the court continued 
   the hearing to allow his attorney time to prepare for the other witnesses; 
   defendant is unable to point to any deficiencies in counsel's work or show 
   that his motion to suppress would have been granted had counsel performed 
   the initial cross-examination.