State v. Dellisanti

Defendant Frank Dellisanti was not in the courtroom when, during the jury’s deliberations, the trial court responded to two questions posed by the jury and when the jury returned its verdict. The record provided limited insight into what had transpired leading up to defendant’s absence during those final events of his trial. Unfortunately, that led the Appellate Division and *448this Court, initially, to perceive that defendant’s absence from the courtroom during the concluding events of the trial was due to circumstances brought about by the execution of an unrelated warrant for his arrest…