Whether a defendant's request for self-representation, made in the context of expressing frustration with appointed counsel and requesting new counsel, constitutes an unequivocal assertion of the right to self-representation under the Sixth Amendment, or whether such a request can be deemed equivocal and waived by the defendant's subsequent silence when the trial court instructs the defendant to file a motion to clarify the request.

Whether the defendant's request for self-representation was unequivocal, despite being made in the context of a request for new counsel