Pasha v. State

Khalid Ali Pasha appeals two first-degree murder convictions and sentences of death for the 2002 killings of his wife Robin Canady and step-daughter Renee-sha Singleton. Our jurisdiction over death sentences is mandatory. See art. V, § 3(b)(1), Fla. Const. Pasha contends that his request to proceed pro se, made on the morning that jury selection began, was unequivocal and thus the trial court violated Faretta v. California, 422 U.S. 806, 95 S.Ct. 2525, 45 L.Ed.2d 562 (1975), by determining the request to be equivocal and denying it. We agree. 1

I. BACKGROUND

On October 15, 2007, approximately…