Bryan Chapman v. United States

Bryan Chapman appeals the district court’s 1 denial of his motion to reconsider an order denying counsel and discovery. We affirm.

After sentencing on his plea of guilty to a drug offense, Chapman moved for appointment of counsel and for discovery to aid him in claiming ineffective assistance of counsel and government misconduct. He said he had affidavits supporting his proposed claims, but he neither filed the affidavits nor reported the facts in them. After the court denied Chapman’s motions, he objected, filing a seventeen-page memorandum. The court took the objection as a motion for…