United States v. Robinson

THOMPSON, Circuit Judge.

On June 13, 2011, after a months-long investigation centered on a bar in Woon-socket, Rhode Island, law enforcement agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (“ATF”) arrested Appellant Robert 0. Robinson and charged him with a panoply of drug trafficking crimes. Within the week leading up to trial, Robinson embarked on a series of maneuvers — including trying more than once to convince the trial judge to recuse herself and ostensibly firing his attorney after the jury had been impaneled — in an apparent attempt to put off the trial. But the…