OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A judge has ruled that the no contest pleas of an Omaha man later convicted of killing four people in the summer of 2013 will stand.

The ruling Friday comes two weeks after the judge found Nikko Jenkins mentally competent enough to go through the sentencing phase. Jenkins faces the death penalty when that sentencing hearing is held on Nov. 14.

Jenkins’ court-appointed public defender, Tom Riley, had sought to withdraw the no-contest pleas Jenkins entered in 2014 while acting as his own attorney. But Jenkins adamantly opposed withdrawing the pleas.

Jenkins was convicted of four counts of first-degree murder for the August 2013 shooting deaths in and around Omaha of Juan Uribe-Pena, Jorge Cajiga-Ruiz, Curtis Bradford and Andrea Kruger.