United States v. El Tora Graham

Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge GINSBURG.

GINSBURG, Circuit Judge:

A jury convicted El Tora Graham on six counts of a seven-count indictment charging a variety of drug trafficking offenses, and the district court imposed a life sentence as required by the United States Sentencing Guidelines. On appeal Graham claims that the district court improperly denied his three pretrial motions for. appointment of substitute counsel and, relatedly, that he received ineffective assistance of counsel during pretrial negotiations and at sentencing, in violation of the Sixth Amendment to the…