United States v. Spangle

OPINION

TALLMAN, Circuit Judge:

Defendant-Appellant Kenneth Lyle Spangle appeals from the twenty-four-month term of imprisonment imposed upon the revocation of his supervised release. Spangle contends that he was, denied his Sixth Amendment right to represent himself, that the district court judge should have recused himself, and that the sentence imposed was procedurally and substantively unreasonable. Because all of Spangle’s contentions are without merit, we affirm the judgment and sentence.

I

This appeal has its genesis in Spangle’s 1996 guilty plea to a charge of bank robbery. In April 1997,…