United States v. Harold Cunningham and Percy Barron

HARRY T. EDWARDS, Chief Judge:

Appellants raise numerous challenges to their convictions arising from a 68-count indictment against them. Only a few of the issues raised merit our attention here.

We reject Appellant Harold Cunningham’s claim that the District Court erred in permitting him to represent himself at trial. The District Court’s findings that Cunningham’s decision to represent himself was knowing and voluntary met the criteria specified in Faretta v. California, 422 U.S. 806, 95 S.Ct. 2525, 45 L.Ed.2d 562 (1975), for determining when a defendant may exercise his constitutional right…