People v. Powe

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Douglass, J.), rendered January 5, 1995, convicting him of robbery in the second degree, grand larceny in the fourth degree (two counts), assault in the second degree, and assault in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

A criminal defendant may invoke the right to defend pro se if " '(1) the request is unequivocal and timely asserted, (2) there has been a knowing and intelligent waiver of the right to counsel, and (3) the defendant has not engaged in…