This appeal presents the question of whether the Trial Justice's absence from the courtroom, without defendant's consent, for brief periods during jury selection constitutes a per se ground for reversal.
Defendant was convicted, after a jury trial, of sodomizing a 13-year-old male in the Broadway-Lafayette/Bleeker Street subway station during the early morning hours of April 4, 1991....
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