Whether Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 43 and a criminal defendant's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights are violated

QUESTION PRESENTED Whether Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 43 and a criminal defendant’s Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights are violated when a Federal Judge appears at a defendant’s cell in a local county jail and indicates that the trial is commencing there and then, and then recesses the proceedings only to later begin jury selection at the Federal courthouse in the defendant’s absence when the defendant was never initially present at the actual commencement of his trial at the courthouse and he did not voluntarily absent himself from his actual trial. ii