NOT PRECEDENTIAL
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT ____________
No. 24-2457 ____________
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
v.
ABDULRAHMAN ABDELAZIZ JAMEA, Appellant ____________
On Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania (D.C. No. 2:19-cr-00167-001) District Judge: Honorable Arthur J. Schwab ____________
Submitted Pursuant to Third Circuit L.A.R. 34.1(a) January 23, 2026 ____________
Before: RESTREPO, PHIPPS, and MASCOTT, Circuit Judges
(Filed: May 29, 2026) ____________
OPINION* ____________
PHIPPS, Circuit Judge.
In June 2019, an Ohio man was indicted in federal court in Pennsylvania for his
involvement in a string of armed pharmacy robberies. He was represented by court-
appointed counsel, but after he requested a new attorney, the District Court assigned him a
* This disposition is not an opinion of the full Court and pursuant to I.O.P. 5.7 does not constitute binding precedent. different lawyer. Through that attorney, he sought to suppress evidence obtained from his smart phone because the affidavit in support of the search warrant contained a
misrepresentation. The District Court denied that motion without holding a Franks
hearing. Through that same attorney, the man also moved to dismiss the indictment based on the denial of his Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial because his trial was scheduled
to begin 57 months after his indictment. The District Court denied that motion as well. As
the trial date approached, the man unsuccessfully requested a new lawyer, and later he
unsuccessfully sought to represent himself. After a trial, the jury found him guilty.
This appeal of that judgment disputes the denials of the pretrial motions – to
suppress and to dismiss – and it also contests the rejection of the requests for new counsel and for self-representation. For the reasons below, we will affirm the judgment of the
District Court.
BACKGROUND
Starting in September 2018, several pharmacies in Western Pennsylvania near
interstate highways were robbed for controlled substances and cash. There were other
commonalities among the robberies: they occurred in the morning, usually by multiple
persons, one of whom was armed, and the target was always the drug safes, where the
Schedule II narcotics were held.
Beyond those similar profiles, the United States Drug Enforcement Administration had no leads after the first few robberies.1 That changed with the November 22, 2018,
robbery of the CVS on Centre Avenue in Pittsburgh. Surveillance footage revealed a man
wearing distinctive white shoes with pink laces acting as a lookout and a maroon
1 Those include the September 6, 2018, robbery of a CVS Pharmacy on Browns Hill Road in Pittsburgh; the September 27, 2018, robbery of a CVS Pharmacy on Erie Street in Edinboro; and the November 17, 2018, robbery of a Rite Aid pharmacy on Third Street in Beaver.
2 2016 Hyundai Sonata with a temporary Ohio license plate as the getaway car. In investigating the robbery, the Pittsburgh police contacted the Ohio Bureau of Motor
Vehicles to ascertain the ownership of the vehicle, but due to a glitch, the Ohio BMV could
not provide that information until after the vehicle received permanent tags. Cf. Ohio Rev. Code § 4503.182(A) (2017) (indicating a temporary placard can be used for 45 days).
In early 2019, after an additional pharmacy robbery,2 the DEA contacted the Ohio
BMV for ownership information concerning the maroon Hyundai Sonata seen at the
November 22 robbery. This time, the Ohio BMV reported that the registered owner of the
vehicle was Abdulrahman Jamea of Reynoldsburg, Ohio, a suburb of Columbus.
As the pharmacy robberies in Western Pennsylvania continued, the clues mounted. Surveillance footage captured Jamea’s Sonata as the getaway car of another robbery of the
Centre Avenue CVS Pharmacy on February 14, 2019. His Sonata was also caught on
surveillance footage of a May 10, 2019, robbery of a Rite Aid pharmacy on Chartiers Street
in Bridgeville. The same video showed Jamea getting out of the car, entering the Rite Aid,
and using a black smart phone while inside.
Days after the robbery of the Bridgeville Rite Aid, on May 15, 2019, there was a
shooting at an apartment complex in Columbus, Ohio. See State v. Jamea, 2022 WL
1555938, at *2 (Ohio Ct. App. May 17, 2022). A twelve-year old witness indicated that
after a maroon Sonata pulled up next to another car with four men inside, an occupant of the Sonata started shooting at those men, hitting one in the head. See id. Law enforcement
found Jamea later that day at a gas station with a gunshot wound, see id. at *3, and after
arresting him, they recovered a semi-automatic pistol and a black Apple iPhone 7 from his Sonata.
2 In December 2018, the CVS Pharmacy on Pine Avenue in Erie was robbed in a similar manner.
3 Within a week of that development, on May 22, 2019, the DEA applied in the Western District of Pennsylvania for a warrant to search the iPhone 7. The 41-paragraph
affidavit in support of that warrant sought to establish probable cause needed to search the
phone. See Dalia v. United States, 441 U.S. 238, 255 (1979) (explaining that a Fourth Amendment warrant has three attributes: approval by a neutral magistrate, a finding of
probable cause, and a particularized description of the items to be seized and places to be
searched). The affidavit mentioned that surveillance footage placed Jamea’s Sonata at
three of the pharmacy robberies and had recorded him acting as a lookout and manipulating
a black phone at the Bridgeville Rite Aid robbery.
The affidavit also included details of other pharmacy robberies that had occurred in West Virginia and Ohio, which the DEA associated with Jamea. In particular,
Paragraph 26 of the affidavit described a pharmacy robbery in Vienna, West Virginia, and
it averred that Jamea texted the address of that pharmacy using the iPhone 7 recovered by
Ohio police. The identification of Jamea’s iPhone 7 as the source of the text was incorrect;
it was sent from another phone number, albeit one that the DEA associated with Jamea.
A magistrate judge, who did not know of the inaccuracy in Paragraph 26 at the time,
granted that application and issued a warrant for the search of Jamea’s iPhone 7. That
search revealed photos of his maroon Hyundai Sonata, a video of him wearing white shoes
with pink laces like those worn by the lookout at the November 2018 Centre Avenue CVS robbery, text messages coordinating the distribution of narcotics, a note that appeared to
be a drug inventory, and a search to a pill-identifier website.
The law caught up with Jamea shortly afterward. With respect to the shooting in Columbus on May 15, a grand jury in Franklin County, Ohio, indicted him on May 28,
2019, on four charges of felonious assault, see Ohio Rev. Code § 2903.11. See Jamea v.
4 Warden, 2024 WL 4542814, at *2–3 (S.D. Ohio Oct. 22, 2024). And for the pharmacy robberies, a federal grand jury in the Western District of Pennsylvania indicted Jamea and
two other men on June 11, 2019.3 See 18 U.S.C. § 3231 (granting the district courts
exclusive original jurisdiction over all federal prosecutions). The day after the federal indictment, a Franklin County grand jury returned a second four-count felonious assault
indictment, see Ohio Rev. Code § 2903.11, based on accusations that Jamea shot at four
women, emptying a clip, because they had complained to his girlfriend about him. See
Jamea, 2022 WL 1555938, at *1–2; Jamea, 2024 WL 4542814, at *3. The state charges
were consolidated into a single case and proceeded to trial. See Jamea, 2022 WL 1555938,
at *1. Those state proceedings delayed Jamea’s arraignment on the federal charges.
Despite the prosecution obtaining orders compelling his attendance in Pittsburgh for an
arraignment, Ohio officials refused to relinquish him from state custody due to the
seriousness of his state charges.
On March 17, 2020, an Ohio jury found Jamea guilty on all eight counts, and three
months later, he was sentenced to prison for 35 to 38.5 years. See Jamea, 2024 WL
4542814, at *3. But his arraignment on the federal charges did not occur promptly
afterward. By then, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Ohio was not transporting prisoners,
and Jamea declined to be arraigned by video teleconferencing. About three years later, after the United States successfully moved for a writ of
habeas corpus ad prosequendum, Jamea was transferred to federal custody. At his
3 A superseding indictment returned on March 10, 2020, charged Jamea with seven counts: one count of conspiracy to commit armed pharmacy robbery, see 18 U.S.C. § 2118(d); one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute controlled substances, see 21 U.S.C. § 846; four counts of armed pharmacy robbery, see 18 U.S.C. § 2118(a), (c); and one count of pharmacy robbery, see 18 U.S.C. § 2118(a).
5 arraignment in Pittsburgh on March 29, 2023, he pleaded not guilty, and his court- appointed counsel obtained an extension for pretrial motions.
Within three months, on June 15, 2023, Jamea requested new counsel. After
confirming that Jamea understood that the appointment of new counsel would delay trial and that he would need to show good cause if he sought new counsel again, the District
Judge granted his request. The District Judge also explained to Jamea that he typically
allows a defendant “one new counsel” but generally not another absent “unusual
circumstances.” Aug. 23, 2023, Status Conference Tr. 6:16–18 (App. 118). New counsel
was appointed on August 23, 2023, and a trial date was set for March 18, 2024.
After receiving several extensions, Jamea’s new counsel filed multiple pretrial motions. One of those sought to suppress the information obtained from Jamea’s iPhone 7
on the grounds that the affidavit in support of the search warrant contained a materially
false statement: it attributed the text message with the address of the Vienna Rite Aid
pharmacy to Jamea’s iPhone 7 when the message came from another source. See Fed. R.
Crim. P. 41(h). Although the District Court interpreted this motion as also requesting a
Franks hearing to ascertain whether the misrepresentation was made knowingly or with
reckless disregard for the truth, it denied the suppression motion without holding a hearing
because it concluded that probable cause to search Jamea’s iPhone 7 existed even without
the allegations in Paragraph 26 of the supporting affidavit. In another pretrial motion, Jamea sought to dismiss the indictment with prejudice due to a violation of his Sixth
Amendment right to a speedy trial. After considering the four factors set forth in Barker
v. Wingo, 407 U.S. 514, 530 (1972), and determining that only one of them – length of delay – favored dismissal, the District Court denied that motion.
6 Within three months of the appointment of his second counsel, Jamea began writing letters to the District Judge expressing dissatisfaction with that attorney. The District Court
docketed and acknowledged that correspondence, which expressed concerns primarily
about pretrial discovery and pressure from his attorney to plead guilty. The District Court viewed Jamea’s request as stemming from a disagreement over legal strategy and trial
management, and it determined that Jamea had not established the good cause needed for
appointment of subsequent counsel.
Two weeks before trial, at the preliminary pretrial conference, on March 5, 2024,
Jamea announced that he wanted to proceed pro se. The District Court then commenced a
colloquy with Jamea, see generally Faretta v. California, 422 U.S. 806, 835 (1975), during which he asked for a legal aide and repeatedly refused to give a yes-or-no answer to
straightforward questions. After the District Court reminded him of the upcoming trial
date and denied his request to submit more motions, Jamea backed off, stating “if I’m not
able to file my own motions or do anything, I don’t want to proceed pro se,” Prelim. Pretrial
Conference Tr. 48:24–25 (App. 219), and “I can’t represent myself in 13 days for trial,” id.
at 51:2–3 (App. 222). The District Court then denied Jamea’s request to represent himself.
The trial took place as scheduled and lasted four days. The jury returned a guilty
verdict. At a subsequent hearing, the District Court sentenced Jamea to a 210-month prison
term to run consecutively with his Ohio sentence of 35 to 38.5 years. Through a notice of appeal, Jamea invoked this Court’s appellate jurisdiction. See
28 U.S.C. § 1291. He now challenges four pretrial rulings: the denials of his motion to
suppress the information obtained from his iPhone 7 and of his motion to dismiss on speedy trial grounds, as well as the refusals of his requests for a third court-appointed counsel and
to proceed pro se.
7 DISCUSSION A. The Challenge to the Denial of the Suppression Motion without a Franks Hearing
Jamea argues that the District Court erred in denying his motion to suppress the
search of his iPhone 7 without holding a Franks hearing. But not every challenge to an
affidavit in support of a warrant requires an evidentiary hearing under Franks v. Delaware, 438 U.S. 154, 155–56 (1978). Rather, to qualify for a Franks hearing, a movant must make
three substantial preliminary showings: (i) that the affidavit in support of the warrant
contained a false statement; (ii) that the false statement was material, meaning it was
necessary for a probable cause determination, such that without the statement, there would
not be probable cause; and (iii) that the false statement was made knowingly and
intentionally or with reckless disregard for its truthfulness. See id.; United States v. Desu,
23 F.4th 224, 234 (3d Cir. 2022).
There is no dispute that Jamea made the first of those substantial showings.
Paragraph 26 incorrectly identified Jamea’s iPhone 7 as the phone that texted the address of the robbed pharmacy in West Virginia.
Jamea, however, falls short of making the substantial showing needed for the second
prong, materiality. It is true that without Paragraph 26 in the affidavit, there would be no other direct link between the iPhone 7 and the pharmacy robberies. But the remainder of
the affidavit provides sufficient probable cause to search the iPhone 7, which was
recovered from Jamea upon his arrest for the shooting in Columbus. The affidavit recounts
that Jamea coordinated and participated in several pharmacy robberies close in time to his
arrest in Columbus and that he was seen using a cell phone at the scene of one of the crimes,
so it is probable that the phone recovered upon his arrest would have information related to his coordination of and participation in those robberies. See Illinois v. Gates, 462 U.S.
8 213, 238 (1983) (explaining that probable cause exists for a search when there is a “fair probability that contraband or evidence of a crime will be found in a particular place”).
Thus, because Jamea did not make a substantial showing that Paragraph 26 was necessary
for a finding of probable cause to search the iPhone 7, the District Court did not err in denying the motion without holding a Franks hearing. B. The Sixth Amendment Challenge to the Denial of a Speedy Trial
Jamea disputes the denial of his motion to dismiss the indictment on speedy trial
grounds. See generally U.S. Const. amend. VI (“In all criminal prosecutions, the accused
shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial . . . .”). Four factors guide the
determination of whether an indictment should be dismissed on speedy trial grounds: (i) the
length of the delay; (ii) the reasons and relative responsibility of the parties for the delay;
(iii) the timeliness of the defendant’s assertion of his right; and (iv) the prejudice to the
defendant. See Doggett v. United States, 505 U.S. 647, 651 (1992); Barker, 407 U.S. at
530.
1. Length of Delay The first factor – length of delay – must be established before the four factors may
be balanced against one another. See Doggett, 505 U.S. at 651–52 (treating length of delay
as “a double enquiry” requiring a showing of presumptively prejudicial delay before consideration of the other three factors); United States v. Velazquez, 749 F.3d 161, 174
(3d Cir. 2014) (“[A] court first decides whether the delay is long enough that it should
trigger analysis of other Barker factors.” (citing Doggett, 505 U.S. at 652)). This Court has further held that a delay of 45 months or longer satisfies the first factor. See United
States v. Battis, 589 F.3d 673, 683 (3d Cir. 2009). So, with a delay of 57 months from the
original indictment (June 11, 2019) to the scheduled trial date (March 18, 2024), Jamea
9 made the requisite showing for the first factor. See United States v. Claxton, 766 F.3d 280, 294 (3d Cir. 2014) (explaining that delay is measured “from the date of arrest or indictment,
whichever is earlier, until the start of trial” (quoting Battis, 589 F.3d at 678)); see also
Battis, 589 F.3d at 679 n.5 (measuring delay from the date of the original indictment for a defendant who was subject to both an original and a superseding indictment).
Consequently, he demonstrated the “presumptive prejudice” needed to consider the
remaining three factors. Doggett, 505 U.S. at 652 n.1 (using the term ‘presumptive
prejudice’ as referring to the “point at which courts deem the delay unreasonable enough
to trigger the Barker enquiry”).
2. The Assignment of Blame for the Delay Under the second factor – the assignment of blame for the delay – the periods of
delay are evaluated separately based on the cause for the delay. Here, there are four periods
of delay.
The first period occurred between the original and superseding indictments,
June 2019 to March 2020. This delay was caused primarily by Ohio’s determination that
it would not release Jamea to federal custody while state proceedings were ongoing. The prosecution tried to overcome that obstacle by obtaining writs of habeas corpus ad
prosequendum and an order granting its motion to compel attendance and enforce the writ,
but Jamea was not brought in for arraignment. Cf. Battis, 589 F.3d at 680 (3d Cir. 2009) (finding that an intentional failure to bring a defendant to trial to allow state proceedings
counted against the government). That delay cannot be blamed on the prosecution – at
least to any significant degree. The second period of delay, from the superseding indictment in March 2020 through
September 2021, was largely due to Covid-19 policies. The Governor of Ohio declared a
10 state of emergency and ordered all inmates to be held in place until June 2021, and the District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania continued all but a limited number
of jury trials. A global pandemic, the declaration of a state of emergency, and the near-
wholesale closure of a federal courthouse cannot be blamed on the prosecution. See Claxton, 766 F.3d at 294 (“[V]alid reason[s], such as a missing witness, . . . justify
appropriate delay.” (quoting Battis, 589 F.3d at 679)). That is especially so since during
that time period, Jamea had successfully continued his arraignment twice and was
unwilling to appear for his arraignment by video or telephone.
The third period of delay, between the resumption of trials in October 2021 and
Jamea’s arraignment in March 2023, was caused by Jamea’s co-defendants. They obtained multiple continuances. That delay is likewise not attributable to the prosecution. See id.
Finally, the delay between Jamea’s arraignment in March 2023 and trial in
March 2024 was primarily attributable to Jamea. He filed four motions to extend the
deadline to file pretrial motions, which pushed the deadline to January 31, 2024. He also
requested to change counsel after acknowledging that it would lead to further delay. This
period of the delay is thus attributable to Jamea. See id. (“[D]elay caused by the defense
weighs against the defendant.” (quoting Battis, 589 F.3d at 679–80)).
In sum, little, if any, of the delay can be attributed to the prosecution, and Jamea
was responsible for at least a year of delay. Jamea is more to blame for the delay than the prosecution.
3. The Defendant’s Assertion (or Not) of the Right A defendant’s assertion of his right to a speedy trial provides evidence that his right was being deprived, while “failure to assert the right will make it difficult for a defendant
to prove that he was denied a speedy trial.” Battis, 589 F.3d at 680–81 (quoting Barker,
11 407 U.S. at 531–32). Here, Jamea did not assert his speedy trial rights until a June 2023 status report, four years after his indictment, and he did not file a motion asserting this right
until January 2024. Jamea concedes that this factor weighs against him.
4. Prejudice to the Defendant For the fourth factor – prejudice to the defendant – the Supreme Court has identified
three, non-exhaustive types of qualifying prejudice: (i) oppressive pretrial incarceration;
(ii) anxiety of the accused; and (iii) impairment of a defense “by dimming memories and
loss of exculpatory evidence.” Doggett, 505 U.S. at 654. But Jamea does not allege
oppressive pretrial incarceration (he was separately incarcerated on the Ohio charges). And
the second form of prejudice – anxiety of the accused – principally concerns the anxiety
associated with the practical consequences of “public scorn,” such as the deprivation of
employment and the curtailment of speech and associations. Klopfer v. North Carolina,
386 U.S. 213, 222 (1967).4 Thus, this factor applies almost exclusively to persons outside
of pretrial custody, and that does not include Jamea. The only remaining form of
recognized prejudice is the impairment of a defense, and Jamea does not “argue []or
provide evidence” on that point. United States v. Chu, 99 F.4th 610, 615 (3d Cir. 2024). Instead, he contends that the length of the delay was presumptively prejudicial. But as
used by the Supreme Court in this context, “presumptive prejudice” from a delay means
that the remaining three Barker factors should be considered – not that the fourth factor is
4 The only circumstance in which the Supreme Court has recognized anxiety of the accused as potentially prejudicial to an already incarcerated defendant occurs when the defendant is left “with little inclination toward self-improvement,” but even such a showing – which Jamea does not make – is not enough by itself to establish prejudice. Smith v. Hooey, 393 U.S. 374, 379 (1969) (quoting James V. Bennett, The Last Full Ounce, 23 Fed. Prob. 20, 21 (1959)). 12 presumptively satisfied. Doggett, 505 U.S. at 652 n.1. Under these circumstances, therefore, Jamea has not established prejudice.
Upon consideration of these factors, the District Court did not err in denying
Jamea’s motion to dismiss the indictment on Sixth Amendment grounds. C. The Challenge to the Denial of Jamea’s Request for a Third Court- Appointed Attorney
Jamea also argues that the District Court erred in denying his request for a third
court-appointed counsel. Specifically, he contends that the District Court did not apply the
good-cause standard and that there was good cause for substituting counsel due to a
complete breakdown of communication and an irreconcilable conflict.
A good-cause standard governs a criminal defendant’s request for a new court-
appointed attorney. See United States v. Welty, 674 F.2d 185, 188 (3d Cir. 1982). Jamea
insists that instead of that standard, the District Court used its own policy of permitting one
new counsel as of right but not allowing subsequent appointments absent unusual
circumstances. Yet, it is entirely consistent with good-cause principles to consider the procedural history of a case and any prior requests for new counsel such that good cause
may be easier to show for initial requests than for successive requests. See Martel v. Clair,
565 U.S. 648, 663 (2012) (explaining that evaluation of requests for new court-appointed counsel involve “a peculiarly context-specific inquiry”); cf. United States v. Goldberg,
67 F.3d 1092, 1098 (3d Cir. 1995) (describing “countervailing governmental interests” that
are “relevant to the ‘good cause’ analysis”). Likewise, it is natural to expect good cause to
be progressively harder to demonstrate as a case proceeds: over time, court-appointed
counsel invests more deeply in the case, and case management delays become more
impactful on the court and the parties. Cf. Welty, 674 F.2d at 187; United States v. Senke, 986 F.3d 300, 309 (3d Cir. 2021). But apart from any pragmatic considerations, the
13 District Court was explicit that its denial of Jamea’s request was grounded in “good cause” based on its finding that the conflicts between him and his counsel related to legal strategy
and trial management as well as Jamea’s “displeasure with his attorney’s assessment of his
case.” Mem. Order 5 (App. 58). Jamea disputes that determination, and his list of grievances with his counsel’s
performance is long. He complains that his attorney did not contact him for several months;
missed the first status conference; remarked that Jamea had sent an abundance of ‘missives’
to the court; requested that the prosecutor quit affording Jamea extensions; called Jamea a
‘difficult client’; stated that Jamea did not need to like or trust him as his attorney; filed a
motion to suppress out of time (that was still considered by the District Court); pressured Jamea to plead guilty; and did not comply with Jamea’s requests for investigations and
discovery. But a district court’s good-cause determination, which involves not only
credibility assessments but also an awareness of the arc of the case’s progression and the
context of events, is subject to a highly deferential abuse-of-discretion standard of review.
See Martel, 565 U.S. at 663–64 (“Because a trial court’s decision on substitution is so fact-
specific, it deserves deference; a reviewing court may overturn it only for an abuse of
discretion.”); cf. United States v. Noble, 42 F.4th 346, 351 (3d Cir. 2022). Under that
standard, no item on Jamea’s grievance list is entitled to a presumption of truthfulness, and
from that perspective, nothing on that list, either individually or in the aggregate, compels the conclusion that the District Court erred in denying his request for the appointment of a
third court-appointed counsel. D. The Challenge to the Denial of Jamea’s Request to Represent Himself
After the District Court denied Jamea’s second request for new counsel, Jamea
indicated at the preliminary pretrial conference that he wanted to represent himself at trial
14 by saying, “I want to go pro se.” Prelim. Pretrial Conference Tr. 30:22–23 (App. 201). The District Court denied that request, and Jamea now disputes that ruling and seeks a new
trial.
A request to proceed pro se by a criminal defendant represented by counsel is not self-executing; it requires court approval. See United States v. Peppers, 302 F.3d 120, 131
(3d Cir. 2002) (citing Johnson v. Zerbst, 304 U.S. 458, 465 (1938)). Before a court can
grant such approval, it must be satisfied that the criminal defendant is “aware of the dangers
and disadvantages” of self-representation, Faretta, 422 U.S. at 835 (citing Adams v. United
States ex rel. McCann, 317 U.S. 269, 279 (1942)); demonstrates a minimal level of mental
competency “to conduct trial proceedings,” Indiana v. Edwards, 554 U.S. 164, 178 (2008); and chooses self-representation “knowing[ly], voluntar[ily], and intelligent[ly],” Iowa v.
Tovar, 541 U.S. 77, 88 (2004).
To evaluate those considerations, the District Court commenced a colloquy with
Jamea. See Faretta, 422 U.S. at 835. During that back-and-forth, and especially after the
denial of an extension of the deadline for pretrial motions, the certainty of Jamea’s request
dissipated. In his own words, “if I’m not able to file my own motions[,] . . . I don’t want
to proceed pro se.” Prelim. Pretrial Conference Tr. 48:24–25 (App. 219). Thus, in light
of his responses during the colloquy, Jamea did not make a clear and unequivocal request
to represent himself, and accordingly, he is not entitled to a new trial on that basis. CONCLUSION
For the foregoing reasons, we will affirm the judgment of the District Court.