United States v. Czubaj

The defendant, Brett Czubaj, appeals from the district court’s judgment revoking his supervised release and sentencing him to an additional nine months of imprisonment. Specifically, Czubaj challenges the court’s failure to order a formal evaluation of his mental health, which, he contends, would have resulted in his being hospitalized under a provisional sentence pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 4244, rather than incarcerated. The defendant also argues that the district court should not have allowed him to represent himself, because he was obviously not competent to waive his right to counsel or to…