ELDRIDGE, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.
The principal issue in this criminal case is whether, during the jury selection phase of the case, conversations at the bench between the trial judge and certain prospective jurors regarding the ability of those jurors to serve beyond their scheduled term constituted a "stage of the trial" at which the defendants had a right to be present.
The defendants, Orville Joseph Porter and Wayne Preston Morris, were...
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