Whether an uncounseled felony guilty plea is Constitutionally valid

QUESTIONS PRESENTED FOR REVIEW 1. Whether an uncounseled felony guilty plea is Constitutionally valid when the defendant was not properly warned by the trial court of the perils of proceeding pro se in a federal criminal case. 2. Whether, as the Fourth Circuit held in this case, an uncounseled defendant’s felony guilty plea itself waives consideration on direct appeal of whether the defendant’s purported waiver of counsel was valid. 3. Whether there is a de novo standard of review of a defendant’s purported waiver of counsel on direct appeal; or, if not, what is the standard of review of a defendant’s purported waiver of counsel. 4. Whether a knowing and voluntary plea to a felony charge requires that the Defendant be warned that one of the consequences of his plea is that he will not receive federal credit for pretrial detention and will face mandatory consecutive federal sentencing following an ongoing state sentence? i