Whether a defendant was denied his rights to a fair trial and to due process of law under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments

QUESTION PRESENTED FOR REVIEW Whether a defendant was denied his rights to a fair trial and to due process of law under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments when the trial court failed to respond to a request from the deliberating jury for readback of the testimony of three crucial witnesses, either by ordering the readback or by acknowledging that a request had been received and would be acted upon, thereby coercing — albeit inadvertently — the jury into reaching a verdict. 1