State v. Pena

STROUD, Judge.

*196 Defendant Bernardo Roberto Pena ("defendant") appeals from the trial court's judgments convicting him of attempted second degree sex offense, attempted second degree rape, second degree sex offense, second degree kidnapping, and sexual battery. On appeal, defendant's primary argument is that the trial court denied his constitutional right to counsel by requiring him to proceed to trial pro se when he did not clearly and unequivocally elect to do so and without performing a proper inquiry into whether defendant knowingly, intelligently, and voluntarily elected to proceed without…