United States v. Patrick Harding

COLLOTON, Circuit Judge.

Patrick Harding was convicted by a jury of unlawful possession of a firearm as a previously convicted felon and possession of a stolen firearm. The district court 1 sentenced him to 20 months’ imprisonment. Harding raises several points in a challenge to the judgment. He complains that the district court erred when it overruled his objections to the government’s peremptory strikes of two Native-American prospective jurors. He contends that the court should have appointed counsel for two prosecution witnesses and advised them of their Fifth Amendment privilege against…