Riggs v. State

OPINION

FRIEDLANDER, Judge.

Sterling Riggs appeals from the denial of his petition for post-conviction relief, raising the following restated issues:

1. Did the post-conviction court err in rejecting Riggs’s claim that he was denied the right to be present at all *461critical stages of the proceedings when neither Riggs nor his attorney was present when the trial court informed the jury during deliberations that the court could not answer the jury’s questions about the evidence and denied its request for certain items of physical evidence?

2. Did the post-conviction court err in determining that…