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Elmont man who refused to attend trial is convicted

A jury convicted an Elmont man of committing identity theft Monday without hearing a single word spoken in his defense. That's because just as Marcel Bristol, 55, like every person accused of a crime in the United States, has the right to a lawyer and the right to be in court for his trial, he also has the opposite right - to not have a lawyer and to not come to court. In this case, Bristol exercised...

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