United States v. Ellis Tyrone Hart

Ellis Tyrone Hart was convicted pursuant to his guilty plea of robbery of mail, money or other property of the United States in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2114 and 2. We affirm the conviction.

Hart initially contends that he was denied effective assistance of counsel because of what Hart characterizes as the district court’s failure to hold an adequate hearing on his motion to appoint new counsel. On January 3, 1977, the day the case was to proceed to trial, the defendant filed a motion to dismiss his appointed counsel on the following grounds: 1) that counsel had failed to file motion…