United States v. Richard Hodge, Jr.

OPINION

CHAGARES, Circuit Judge.

A jury found Richard Antonio Hodge guilty of ten counts of federal and Virgin Islands offenses, including robbery, assault, firearms-related crimes, and reckless endangerment. Hodge appeals his conviction and sentence on the following grounds: double jeopardy, denial of his pretrial motion to substitute counsel, denial of his motion to strike three jurors for cause, admission of prejudicial evidence at trial, insufficiency of the evidence, and error in the jury instructions.

For the reasons that follow, we agree that Hodge’s multiple convictions under 14 V.I.C. §…