PER CURIAM.
We reverse and remand for a new trial.
The trial court erred in receiving and responding to a jury question and in allowing the jury to replay the victim's taped statement to the police without notice to and in the absence of defense counsel. This is so, even though the tape had been previously admitted into evidence. See Fla. R. Crim. P. 3.400.
In Williams v. State,
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