The question on this appeal is whether a finding that a criminal defendant has received actual notice of the date for trial and has nonetheless voluntarily failed to appear is sufficient, as a matter of law, to permit the court to proceed to try the defendant in absentia. The courts below held this finding sufficient to establish an implicit relinquishment of a defendant's right to be present...
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