Defendant was not deprived of his right of self-representation. Contrary to defendant's arguments, he did not make "repeated" requests to proceed pro se, and the court neither denied nor ignored them (compare People v Trammell, 183 A.D.3d 155, 156 [1st Dept 2020], lv denied 35 N.Y.3d 1071 [2020]). Defendant made such a request in a letter to the court, but he rendered this request equivocal (see e.g. People v Cornelius,
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