Our online vote concluded last night.
I asked PC not to come to the game again.
He did not take it well. Probably would have been worse in person.
As it is, my group doesn't have to endure the ugly side of this, which I suppose is a good thing. I still don't like the idea of someone being tried in absentia, but then there never is a "likable" way to tell someone to leave.
I would suggest that it was only the deliberations of the jury which were undertaken without the accused present.